TTPBA elects new board for 2026-2028

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA) has elect­ed a new board of di­rec­tors to serve for the 2026-2028 term.

The board was elect­ed at the as­so­ci­a­tion’s an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing on Au­gust 27 at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce.

Chris­tianne El­cock of Fam­i­ly-Fo­cus Broad­cast­ing Net­work and Isaac 98.1 FM will serve as pres­i­dent, with Ja­son Cor­bie of 103.1 FM as vice pres­i­dent.

Ger­hard Pet­ti­er of Guardian Me­dia Ltd will serve as trea­sur­er.

The oth­er di­rec­tors are Dou­glas Wil­son of Trinidad Ex­press News­pa­per Ltd/OCM Group, Ki­ran Ma­haraj of Caribbean Lifestyle Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Ltd, Ki­moy Thomas-Williams of TTT Ltd, To­va Sat­nar­ine-White of Guardian Me­dia Ltd, and Raoul de Souza of Hott 93 and Taj 92.3/OCM Group.

The TTP­BA said me­dia vi­a­bil­i­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty will re­main a key pri­or­i­ty for the as­so­ci­a­tion.

It cit­ed the clo­sure of me­dia out­lets across the Caribbean, in­clud­ing News­day in Trinidad and To­ba­go, as ev­i­dence of the eco­nom­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and reg­u­la­to­ry pres­sures fac­ing the in­dus­try.

The as­so­ci­a­tion al­so point­ed to the im­pact of dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy and ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence on me­dia, in­clud­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for greater ef­fi­cien­cy and con­tent cre­ation, as well as con­cerns over mis­in­for­ma­tion, dis­in­for­ma­tion, ver­i­fi­ca­tion and eth­i­cal jour­nal­ism.

The TTP­BA said it will ad­vo­cate for poli­cies that sup­port a vi­able and in­de­pen­dent me­dia in­dus­try, while help­ing me­dia pro­fes­sion­als de­vel­op skills for an in­creas­ing­ly dig­i­tal and AI-dri­ven en­vi­ron­ment.

It al­so said it would pro­mote re­spon­si­ble jour­nal­ism and work with stake­hold­ers to help shape the fu­ture of the in­dus­try.