Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed (GML) copped four Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and Broad­cast­ing In­dus­try (TBI) awards dur­ing the sec­ond edi­tion of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (TATT) awards held on Sat­ur­day evening at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain.

GML won the In­no­v­a­tive Broad­cast­er Award; the In­no­v­a­tive Ser­vice Of­fer­ing Award - Free to Air; the Tech­no­log­i­cal Dis­rup­tor Award - Free to Air and the Ra­dio For Our Peo­ple Award.   

GML’s Man­ag­ing Ed­i­tor Kay­mar Jor­dan, Head of Com­mer­cial Con­tent and Mar­ket­ing To­va Sat­nar­ine-White and Ra­dio Man­ag­er Jon Birch rep­re­sent­ed the com­pa­ny at the event.  

Jor­dan said, “These awards are a tes­ta­ment to the hard work and ded­i­ca­tion of the GML team to rais­ing the stan­dard of broad­cast­ing na­tion­al­ly and en­sur­ing that we ho­n­our our core val­ues and fo­cus on be­ing pos­i­tive stew­ards of our beloved in­dus­try. 

“In­deed, any suc­cess we achieve is al­so due in large mea­sure to the sup­port we en­joy from our val­ued cus­tomers and clients, with­out whom we are noth­ing. Of course, the re­ward for hard work is more hard work, and we are here for the long haul.” 

Among the oth­er awardees was Dig­i­cel T&T in the cat­e­gories of In­no­v­a­tive Ser­vice Of­fer­ing – Providers and the Ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty Award. Gayelle al­so won for In­no­v­a­tive Ser­vice Of­fer­ing – TV Broad­cast­ers over Ca­ble and the Tech­no­log­i­cal Dis­rup­tor Award- TV Broad­cast­ers over Ca­ble.

Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) won the Techono­log­i­cal Dis­rup­tor Award – Providers; the So­cial Con­tri­bu­tion Award; the Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Award and the Con­nect the Un­con­nect­ed Award. State owned TTT won the Lo­cal Con­tent Award.  

Speak­ing at the event TATT’s deputy chair­man Dr Kim Mal­lalieu said the awards have grown sig­nif­i­cant­ly since the first in­stal­ment five years ago. 

“The in­au­gur­al awards in 2019 set a high bench­mark for recog­nis­ing out­stand­ing achieve­ments in the in­dus­try. That year we re­ceived 28 en­tries. This year we re­ceived 52 sub­mis­sions, sig­nalling a vi­brant buzz and grow­ing en­thu­si­asm for these awards. The TBI cel­e­brates ex­cel­lence across nine dis­tinct cat­e­gories,” Mal­lalieu high­light­ed. 

She not­ed that while com­pe­ti­tion dri­ves every­one to great­ness, it is a col­lab­o­ra­tion that tru­ly el­e­vates every­one. 

“I look for­ward to the next 20 years of in­no­va­tion, ex­cel­lence, and ex­clu­siv­i­ty, as we to­geth­er shape the fu­ture of telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and broad­cast­ing in Trinidad,” Mal­lalieu added. 

About the awards 

In 2019, TATT launched its in­au­gur­al TBI Awards to recog­nise and re­ward in­no­va­tion, high stan­dards, and ex­cel­lence in the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and broad­cast­ing sec­tors of T&T. 

These awards aim to recog­nise, ap­pre­ci­ate and high­light the con­tri­bu­tions and achieve­ments of in­dus­try stake­hold­ers. 

This year there were nine award cat­e­gories.