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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Rampersad is new MATT president

by

Joel Julien
2127 days ago
20190427
Newly installed MATT President Dr Sheila Rampersad, front centre, with other members of the new executive, from left, Secretary Francesca Hawkins, Treasurer Vindhar Suraj, Jensen La Vende and Vice President Lasana Liburd. Missing are Assistant Secretary Marie Hull and Akash Samaroo.

Newly installed MATT President Dr Sheila Rampersad, front centre, with other members of the new executive, from left, Secretary Francesca Hawkins, Treasurer Vindhar Suraj, Jensen La Vende and Vice President Lasana Liburd. Missing are Assistant Secretary Marie Hull and Akash Samaroo.

“We want to re­as­sure all mem­bers of the (me­dia) fra­ter­ni­ty, those who are mem­bers of the or­gan­i­sa­tion for­mal­ly and those who are watch­ers, sup­port­ers and even crit­ics of the or­gan­i­sa­tion that we in­tend to ap­proach our task with in­tegri­ty and a lot of dili­gence”.

So said new­ly elect­ed pres­i­dent of the Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MATT) Dr Sheila Ram­per­sad fol­low­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s elec­tions at TSTT’s suite at the Queen’s Park Oval yes­ter­day.

Elec­tions were al­so held at Bmo­bile’s Con­fer­ence Room at Gulf City Mall, Low­lands in To­ba­go.

Join­ing Ram­per­sad on the new MATT ex­ec­u­tive are vice pres­i­dent Lasana Liburd, trea­sur­er Vin­d­har Suraj, sec­re­tary Francesca Hawkins, as­sis­tant sec­re­tary Marie Hull and floor mem­bers Akash Sama­roo and Jensen La Vende.

Ram­per­sad said high on her agen­da for MATT are re­form of the as­so­ci­a­tion’s con­sti­tu­tion, as well as deal­ing with the Cy­ber­crime Bill, Whistle­blow­er leg­is­la­tion and the Non-Prof­it Or­gan­i­sa­tion’s Bill.

With re­spect to the cur­rent war against the me­dia by Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith, Ram­per­sad said the as­so­ci­a­tion will con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion.

She said MATT will con­tin­ue to de­fend press free­dom and free­dom of ex­pres­sion for all.

“The Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion es­sen­tial­ly is about the pro­tec­tion of press free­dom and ad­vo­ca­cy for free­dom of ex­pres­sion more gen­er­al­ly un­der which free­dom of the press comes so that free­dom of ex­pres­sion for all peo­ple, for all sec­tors, for all in­di­vid­u­als, for all or­gan­i­sa­tions, re­main an im­por­tant fo­cus for MATT and we will con­tin­ue to guard it in what­ev­er way we feel is nec­es­sary,” she said.


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