“Your pur­pose on this earth, your pres­ence on this earth mat­ters and if no­body said it to you be­fore, you need to be­lieve that you mat­ter.”

When Trinida­di­an so­ca star Denise “Saucy Wow” Bel­fon, one of this year’s (2026) New York City Coun­cil Procla­ma­tion Hon­orees for cul­ture, per­forms and in­structs her au­di­ences: “Put your back in it” and “wine,” she isn’t aware that she’s lit­er­al­ly en­cour­ag­ing/pro­mot­ing spine well­ness. Win­ing is said to re­lieve stiff­ness, im­prove range of mo­tion and pro­mote pelvic aware­ness, while gen­er­al ex­er­cise pre­vents back in­juries and pain.

Those were the words writ­ten on the back of the medal giv­en to par­tic­i­pants in the re­cent Pow­er­house 6K event. The words per­fect­ly cap­ture the mes­sage be­hind the Pow­er­house brand cre­at­ed by Omesh Per­saud.

Long be­fore the birds be­gin to chirp and the sun ris­es to shine its rays, the Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed build­ing on St Vin­cent Street in Port-of-Spain is al­ready abuzz. While this par­tic­u­lar team is small in num­ber, they show their might every morn­ing, de­liv­er­ing one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s no­table talk shows: CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew (TMB).

Okay, so I have a con­fes­sion. Be­fore I be­came a pro­duc­er, I had no idea what that meant. For me, “pro­duc­er” was one of those job ti­tles that you hear but don’t nec­es­sar­i­ly know what the per­son ac­tu­al­ly does. Think sys­tems en­gi­neer (some­thing IT-ish, right?) or som­me­li­er (one word... wine). Even to this day, peo­ple will ask me what my job is, and you can see the blank stare when I re­spond with, “I’m a tele­vi­sion pro­duc­er”. And you know what? I can’t blame them. Pro­duc­ers are the un­seen team, the ones in the back­ground mak­ing sure the tal­ent in front of the cam­era is ful­ly pre­pared to de­liv­er a sol­id show, all while we try not to die of stress at 50. We jug­gle phone calls, What­sApp mes­sages, re­porters, ed­i­tors, an­chors, video, scripts, break­ing news, tech­ni­cal prob­lems, chang­ing run­downs, and, per­haps most im­por­tant­ly, a clock that, like Big Red of “Bring It On” fame, doesn’t care about your feel­ings.

For Tim­o­thy Chasteau, the first les­son of tele­vi­sion news was that there was al­ways more to see.

For al­most four decades, the vet­er­an CNC3 cam­era­man has gone to­wards dan­ger, hard­ship and the for­got­ten cor­ners of Trinidad and To­ba­go, cam­era in hand, look­ing for the im­ages that tell the sto­ry.

David Lee­hue’s re­mark­able jour­ney as an artist has been shaped as much by ad­ver­si­ty as by tal­ent.

Con­tes­tants in the lo­cal leg of Miss Glob­al In­ter­na­tion­al re­cent­ly brought Caribbean flair to the run­way, mod­el­ling strik­ing de­sign­er pieces by Eliz­a­beth Lu­cas.

In 2013, CNC3 News wel­comed its first fe­male weath­er an­chor and me­te­o­rol­o­gist, Seigo­nie Mo­hammed.

You’ve heard that it takes a vil­lage to raise a child, well you should know that it takes an out­stand­ing team to cre­ate the most suc­cess­ful and ex­cit­ing tele­vi­sion sta­tion born in the ear­ly 21st cen­tu­ry in this coun­try. As CNC3 Tele­vi­sion cel­e­brates its 21st an­niver­sary – a com­ing of age, if you will -- many of that team that chart­ed the course for the fledg­ling TV sta­tion have con­tin­ued to work with the com­pa­ny, even as new peo­ple have joined the sta­tion and com­mit­ted to make it the cho­sen place for lo­cal en­ter­tain­ment and in­for­ma­tion.

The name Akash Sama­roo has be­come syn­ony­mous with CNC3. How­ev­er, 13 years ago, his ca­reer could have tak­en a very dif­fer­ent path.