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Professor gets $1M to write a report THE five-member Committee appointed by Cabinet to “enquire into the root causes of the problems identified and shown by crime statistics, particularly as it affects Trinidadian males, and to suggest solutions to problems they identify” has hit a snag over money. The delivery read more…

TATT stalls on Broadcast Code
April 13th 2012 3:24 PMMedia Watch was pleasantly surprised but mildly amused by reports in last weekend’s Guardian quoting Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) chairman Selby Wilson as stating that the Draft Broadcast Code for regulation of radio and television content is to be revisited in the next two months. TATT’s executive read more…

Braveboy replaces Warner
April 6th 2012 3:22 PMArts and Multiculturalism Minister Winston ‘Gypsy’ Peters has tapped Marcia Braveboy a former i95 journalist who is well known in Government communications circles as his Media Advisor to replace Rolph Warner who died suddenly last year during a football game. Braveboy, a Grenadian national who is very active in local read more…

Another departure from GISL
March 23rd 2012 12:08 PMIT appears that there is some kind of exodus taking place from the Government Information Services Ltd, where ongoing resignations and departures continue to be the order of the day. The latest being Marketing and Communications Manager Rodelle Phillips, who left last Friday for the private sector. She is the read more…

Rambachan pulling Stone
January 27th 2012 12:05 PMMedia Watch has been noting for some time the unhealthy environment at the State-owned Caribbean New Media Group, where morale is said to be quite low as a result of its marauding chairman and a chief executive struggling to find his feet. Well, it appears that Foreign Affairs and Communications read more…

No passage for India
January 6th 2012 11:58 AMPrime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar left for India last Monday and Media Watch was busy scouting around to see which media houses would actually be sending reporters to cover the two-week visit by our Chief Executive (as she likes to call herself) to the country with the world’s 10th largest economy. read more…




