For 20 years, CNC3 has lived its mantra — “We are where you are.” Trust­ed by the na­tion as a lead­ing source of news and in­for­ma­tion, CNC3 has stood firm­ly at the heart of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sto­ry. From break­ing de­vel­op­ments that shape pol­i­cy at the high­est lev­els of so­ci­ety, to the every­day strug­gles and tri­umphs of or­di­nary cit­i­zens, CNC3 has brought truth, bal­ance, and con­nec­tion to every house­hold. As a me­dia house, its reach spans board­rooms and back­yards alike, earn­ing the trust of all. At 20, CNC3 reaf­firms its com­mit­ment to be­ing wher­ev­er the peo­ple are.

For 20 years, CNC3 has lived its mantra — “We are, where you are.” Trust­ed by the na­tion as a lead­ing source of news and in­for­ma­tion, CNC3 has stood firm­ly at the heart of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sto­ry. From break­ing de­vel­op­ments that shape pol­i­cy at the high­est lev­els of so­ci­ety, to the every­day strug­gles and tri­umphs of or­di­nary cit­i­zens, CNC3 has brought truth, bal­ance, and con­nec­tion to every house­hold. As a me­dia house, its reach spans board­rooms and back­yards alike, earn­ing the trust of all. At 20, CNC3 reaf­firms its com­mit­ment to be­ing wher­ev­er the peo­ple are. In an age when in­de­pen­dent, pro­fes­sion­al jour­nal­ism is more im­por­tant than ever be­fore, the As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean Me­dia Work­ers (ACM) con­grat­u­lates CNC3 on its 20th an­niver­sary of qual­i­ty news and en­ter­tain­ment. 

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA) con­grat­u­lates CNC3 on its 20th an­niver­sary. Af­ter be­gin­ning as a ca­ble news chan­nel in 2005, we quick­ly saw the sta­tion grow in­to a free-to-air tele­vi­sion sta­tion by 2008.

At the time, I was the Di­rec­tor of News and Cur­rent Af­fairs at the Caribbean Me­dia Cor­po­ra­tion (CMC), head­quar­tered in Bar­ba­dos, li­ais­ing dai­ly with re­gion­al news­rooms for the pur­pose of shar­ing mul­ti­me­dia con­tent and pro­duc­ing two night­ly half-hour re­gion­al tele­vi­sion news pro­grammes.

To­day, CNC3 proud­ly cel­e­brates 20 years of serv­ing the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go. Since our very first broad­cast in 2005, we have re­mained com­mit­ted to de­liv­er­ing trust­ed news, en­gag­ing con­tent and world-class en­ter­tain­ment that re­flect the lives and voic­es of our na­tion.

On be­half of the Board of Di­rec­tors, man­age­ment and the en­tire Guardian Me­dia fam­i­ly, I ex­tend heart­felt con­grat­u­la­tions to every­one who has con­tributed to CNC3’s re­mark­able jour­ney over the past two decades.

Trinidad and To­ba­go to­day an­nounced a TT$94 mil­lion aid grant from Chi­na, as Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar be­gan meet­ings in New York for the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly.

A Waller­field cou­ple ap­peared be­fore a mag­is­trate to­day charged with ob­tain­ing mon­ey by false pre­tences af­ter a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a bo­gus land deal.

Health of­fi­cials from the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) will join their coun­ter­parts from the Re­gion of the Amer­i­c­as in Wash­ing­ton D.C. next week, for the 62nd Di­rect­ing Coun­cil meet­ing of the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO).

St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter is call­ing on the Unit­ed States (US) to re­move its mil­i­tary pres­ence near Venezuela. Speak­ing dur­ing the morn­ing ses­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly to­day, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves told the As­sem­bly: “The re­cent ramp­ing up of ten­sions be­tween the USA and the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela is most un­help­ful to peace and sta­bil­i­ty in our Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­ca.

Re­cip­i­ents of so­cial wel­fare cheques will face de­lays in Oc­to­ber due to tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties with the print­ing process.

A 76-year-old El So­cor­ro woman was beat­en and robbed by ban­dits who stormed her home on Thurs­day morn­ing.