Mrs Fete

Kamla keeps up heavy party schedule Amidst fiery protests in the Siparia constituency and bitter complaints by some constituents that she is missing in action, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is keeping up a heavy party schedule of Carnival fetes, in one instance hitting three — in different parts of the read more…

O’Brian Haynes now on ‘The Street’
February 17th 2012 12:06 PMDESPITE the contentious separation of O’Brien Haynes from Power 102, the disc jockey turned CEO has managed to bounce back well. Haynes, who left the Gillette family-owned Radio Vision in circumstances which led to the organisation placing newspaper advertisements disavowing any relationship with him, has landed at Iwer George’s 91.1 read more…

Mirror gets ‘award’ from MNS
February 17th 2012 12:05 PMMedia Watch does not quite know what to make of the award presented by the Ministry of National Security to TnT Mirror publisher Maxie Cuffie at the Ministry’s media appreciation ceremony held on Friday February 3. The inscription on the ‘award’, which was presented to all media houses, stated that read more…

Ramlogan gets facts wrong… again
February 17th 2012 12:04 PMATTORNEY General Anand Ramlogan SC is emerging as a man of questionable veracity. How else can Media Watch explain the AG’s response to the search of Newsday’s offices and the home of reporter Andre Bagoo. While we have to take the AG at his word that he did not know read more…

Religious stations at war
February 17th 2012 12:03 PMMedia Watch is now following a verbal war between two religious broadcast entities Radio Jagriti, the station controlled by Sat Maharaj’s Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha and the Islamic Broadcasting Network (IBN) owned by Insham Ishmael. Ironically, Ishmael was one of Maharaj’s main supporters in his battle for the radio broadcast read more…

Some news analysis for Daaga
February 10th 2012 12:11 PMMedia Watch has always considered Makandal Daaga something of an odd ball. It is true the NJAC ‘Chief Servant’ had his 15 minutes of fame in 1970 and was the self-proclaimed leader of the Black Power disturbances which led to radical changes in Trinidad and Tobago society. Although there are read more…

Baptiste promises another book
February 10th 2012 12:10 PMMedia Watch was surprised at the surprisingly small turnout of journalists and the meagre coverage given to the launch of Owen Baptiste’s ‘Seagulls Won’t Come Home’, a biography cum travelogue, at NALIS last week Wednesday. Baptiste was at one time a household name in local media and a prolific writer read more…



