The Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (Matt) says Allyson Hen­nessy's mul­ti­ple tal­ents, in­tel­li­gence, com­mit­ment and vi­sion for T&T's peo­ple carved for her a unique and in­flu­en­tial place at the very cen­tre of the coun­try's cul­tur­al life, from the in­de­pen­dence era to her death.She died on Sat­ur­day night at the St Clair Med­ical Cen­tre.In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the as­so­ci­a­tion said to sum­marise Allyson's broad and deep con­tri­bu­tion to the de­vel­op­ment of T&T was as com­plex as defin­ing the facets of a jew­el.

The re­lease said her "life in­ter­sect­ed with peo­ple every lev­el of our so­ci­ety, whether in her most wide­ly ac­claimed role as tele­vi­sion broad­cast­er and pro­duc­er or as the men­tor and friend of many of the coun­try's most out­stand­ing per­son­al­i­ties."It said dur­ing the 1990 in­sur­rec­tion she played a ma­jor role, har­ness­ing the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty to­geth­er with her news broad­casts, de­liv­ered from Camp Og­den, St James, un­der the most chal­leng­ing of cir­cum­stances."Her com­mit­ment to the me­dia was tire­less," the re­lease al­so said.