AN­GE­LO JE­DIDI­AH

Re­porter

an­ge­lo.je­didi­ah@guardian.co.tt

Hard work, cre­ativ­i­ty and com­mit­ment to jour­nal­ism have paid off for Guardian Me­dia jour­nal­ists, who earned three ho­n­ours at the re­gion­al me­dia awards, in­clud­ing one ma­jor award and two spe­cial men­tions, for ex­cel­lence across tele­vi­sion and print.

The jour­nal­ists were recog­nised at the 37th Caribbean Broad­cast­ing Union (CBU) Me­dia Awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Hy­att in George­town, Guyana, on Wednes­day, where win­ners from print, dig­i­tal and broad­cast me­dia in 13 coun­tries and ter­ri­to­ries across the Eng­lish, French and Span­ish Caribbean were ho­n­oured.

Guardian Me­dia copped the Best Pro­duc­tion on Land Degra­da­tion Neu­tral­i­ty (Print) cat­e­go­ry, where “Ris­ing Seas and Van­ish­ing Lands,” writ­ten by Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing, Ryan Ba­choo. The piece was recog­nised for its re­port­ing on the ef­fects of en­vi­ron­men­tal degra­da­tion and chang­ing land­scapes on lo­cal com­mu­ni­ties.

Guardian Me­dia al­so re­ceived a Spe­cial Men­tion in the Best Mag­a­zine Pro­gramme (Tele­vi­sion) cat­e­go­ry for the tele­vi­sion pro­gramme “Agen­da 41.”

The pro­gramme was recog­nised for its cov­er­age dur­ing the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, with the award en­try cred­it­ed to hosts, Se­nior Pro­duc­er Bavi­ta Gopaulchan, and Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing Ke­jan Haynes, with Ba­choo serv­ing as pro­duc­er.

Guardian Me­dia al­so re­ceived a spe­cial men­tion in the Best Sports Sto­ry (Print) cat­e­go­ry for “20 Years On: Re­mem­ber­ing When T&T Qual­i­fied” writ­ten by Ba­choo.

The sto­ry looked back at Trinidad and To­ba­go’s his­toric qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the FI­FA World Cup 2006.

The cel­e­bra­tions con­tin­ued as two more jour­nal­ists earned in­di­vid­ual ac­co­lades for work pro­duced be­fore join­ing the com­pa­ny.

Cli­mate Change Ed­i­tor Seigo­nie Mo­hammed won the SDG Cham­pi­on (Dig­i­tal) cat­e­go­ry, while To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent Stephon Nicholas got a spe­cial men­tion for Best News Sto­ry (Print).

But it wasn’t on­ly in the ar­eas of news that mem­bers of Guardian Me­dia stood out.

Ra­dio per­son­al­i­ty Jerome “Rome” Pre­cil­la copped the award for Best En­ter­tain­ment Pro­gramme (Tele­vi­sion) for “Car­ni­val Cat­walk Sea­son 1,” along with co-pro­duc­ers Rod­ney Seemu­n­gal and Gi­an Fran­co.