The Me­dia Com­plaints Coun­cil (MCC) has an­nounced its new­ly ap­point­ed mem­bers, who of­fi­cial­ly took up their roles on 1st June 2025.

Chaired by vet­er­an jour­nal­ist Lennox Grant, the oth­er mem­bers are Stephen Wil­son, Joanne Tra­cy Far­rag and Charles Carter. Their ap­point­ments were for­malised by Dou­glas Wil­son, pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA).

The MCC was es­tab­lished in 1997 fol­low­ing a gov­ern­ment green pa­per on me­dia reg­u­la­tion. The TTP­BA cre­at­ed the coun­cil as an in­de­pen­dent body to en­force the me­dia’s Code of Prac­tice.

The MCC serves the pub­lic by in­ves­ti­gat­ing com­plaints about eth­i­cal breach­es or in­ac­cu­ra­cies in both print and elec­tron­ic me­dia. It aims to re­solve dis­putes quick­ly and fair­ly, while pro­mot­ing fair­ness, bal­ance and cour­tesy in jour­nal­ism.

The coun­cil al­so plays a role in co-reg­u­la­tion, a rec­om­men­da­tion in­clud­ed in the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty’s Draft Broad­cast Code.

Ac­cord­ing to the MCC’s by-laws, the coun­cil ex­ists to pro­vide a cost-ef­fec­tive, ef­fi­cient and in­de­pen­dent av­enue for the pub­lic to raise con­cerns about me­dia con­duct while pre­serv­ing the free­dom of the press.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic can file writ­ten com­plaints through the coun­cil’s web­site at https://mcc.org.tt/com­plaint.