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 ACM com­mends this mile­stone and hopes the sta­tion con­tin­ues to grow in strength, as Trinidad and To­ba­go, the re­gion, and the wider world in­creas­ing­ly re­ly on de­ci­sion-mak­ing based on sen­si­ble, clear, and ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion, now threat­ened by grow­ing mis and dis­in­for­ma­tion.

Glob­al­ly, so­ci­eties are grap­pling with a tidal wave of in­for­ma­tion com­pet­ing for at­ten­tion. Con­tent pro­duc­tion has be­come cheap­er and more ac­ces­si­ble, with many plat­forms en­cour­ag­ing users not on­ly to con­sume but to cre­ate and share me­dia. 

While some con­tri­bu­tions pro­vide re­fresh­ing new per­spec­tives, oth­ers have fu­elled the spread of harm­ful mis­in­for­ma­tion. For me­dia pro­fes­sion­als, this means work­ing hard­er to un­cov­er truth and present it in the clear­est, most dy­nam­ic for­mats pos­si­ble.

Caribbean me­dia hous­es, in par­tic­u­lar, must har­ness the pow­er of com­mu­ni­ty and team­work. News­rooms rep­re­sent com­mu­ni­ties of per­spec­tives and ex­pe­ri­ences that en­rich re­port­ing and help erase blind spots. 

Col­leagues of­ten serve as both sources and au­di­ences, sharp­en­ing the rel­e­vance of con­tent. This is a re­minder that di­verse ed­i­to­r­i­al voic­es en­sure broad­er cov­er­age. Such col­lec­tive strengths give news­rooms an edge over in­di­vid­ual con­tent cre­ators work­ing in iso­la­tion.

The ACM once again con­grat­u­lates CNC3 on two decades of tele­vi­sion ex­cel­lence. The or­gan­i­sa­tion looks for­ward to the sta­tion’s con­tin­ued growth, and to its on­go­ing con­tri­bu­tion to qual­i­ty lo­cal con­tent and cred­i­ble news for the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.