The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA) has of­fered con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly of Jones P. Madeira, and to the me­dia fra­ter­ni­ty.

In a state­ment on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, the TTP­BA said, "Jones P’s life­time in the me­dia would not be soon for­got­ten, hav­ing worked in many spheres be­gin­ning in the ear­ly 1960’s as an am­a­teur an­nounc­er on the Voice of Red­if­fu­sion wire ra­dio ser­vice, mov­ing on to be a trainee re­porter at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Guardian, and criss­cross­ing print and broad­cast me­dia through the years."

Madeira served as a men­tor to jour­nal­ists through­out the Caribbean and be­yond and his coun­sel was sought by many. "The his­to­ry of me­dia in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the re­gion can­not be writ­ten with­out ref­er­ence to this icon of pro­fes­sion­al­ism and ex­cel­lence in me­dia and mass com­mu­ni­ca­tion," the TTP­BA added.