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- 22 December, 2024
TTT BACK AS PNM’S PROPAGANDA ARM
SHORTLY after the PNM won the 2015 general election, I attended a meeting of heads of agencies under the Communications Ministry, called by Minister Maxie Cuffie.
Cuffie asked about billings for election broadcasts and advertising.
THE TTT TRAVESTY
TAXPAYERS have spent some $300 million on Trinidad and Tobago Television since the station was rebranded in late 2015.
A 2019 survey found that the broadcaster had an audience similar to Tobago’s Channel 5.
WATERING DOWN THE SILK BRANDY
At front centre was President Christine Kangaloo, who took heat last year after her husband Kerwin Garcia and brother Colin Kangaloo were awarded senior counsel status less than two months after she became Head of State.
WHERE IS TSTT CYBER-ATTACK REPORT?
MORE than six months after Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) was hit by a crippling cyber-attack, the country does not know the cause.
BACK TO THE FUTURE AT TTT
THE PNM’s newly-revealed debt of $572,783.75 to the taxpayer-owned electronic media company is a throwback to earlier times of political abuse.
‘SON OF A BITCH’ LEADS RADIO JAAGRITI TO PULL THE PLUG ON UNC
RADIO Jaagriti, which was set up after a heated eight-year battle with the authorities, would no longer broadcast speeches by United National Congress (UNC) Member of Parliament Barry Padarath.
WHAT MADE ANIL BHEEM SPECIAL
HIS peers describe him as being so talented he could have been a playback singer for Bollywood movies. They speak of his versatile voice and his capacity to interpret from devotional to classical to film songs.
TTT THE $M PNM PLAYTHING
State broadcaster, Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG), was the first organisation to get a new board of directors, and company chair Helen Drayton had not yet kicked me out. Within weeks of the PNM’s return, the company spent $253,000 on a study on the path forward and then revived the sentimental Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT) brand, which had earlier been laid to rest with a generation of viewers.
A BAD DAY FOR ROWLEY AND THE MEDIA
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley is too seasoned and elderly to conduct the people’s business with such an unseemly temperament.
LOSS-MAKING AGARD RIDES ON
LISA Agard, CEO of the loss-making Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT), has managed to secure some prized corporate positions in recent years.
