Port-of-Spain May­or Joel Mar­tinez presents the May­or’s Award to vet­er­an jour­nal­ist Do­minic Kaliper­sad at a vir­tu­al civic re­cep­tion at the Port-of-Spain City Hall yes­ter­day as the cor­po­ra­tion marks City Day 2021.

Kaliper­sad, the for­mer group head of news CCN Ltd, re­ceived the award for out­stand­ing ser­vice in the me­dia in­dus­try, ster­ling con­tri­bu­tion to­wards the de­vel­op­ment of broad­cast jour­nal­ism and out­stand­ing gal­lantry in re­port­ing his­toric events in the cap­i­tal city. Kaliper­sad, for­mer ed­i­tor in chief of the Trinidad Guardian, head of news at TV6, and head of news and pro­gram­ming at Trinidad Broad­cast­ing Com­pa­ny has spent 47 years in the me­dia in­dus­try and is the longest-serv­ing on-air news pre­sen­ter in the coun­try.

Two oth­er peo­ple re­ceived the May­or’s Award—Fr Gre­go­ry Au­gus­tine, the prin­ci­pal of Fa­ti­ma for his ca­reer in ed­u­ca­tion and Do­minique Sa­landy-Browne, a school teacher. Six Civic Awards were giv­en to—the Stu­dents Sup­port Ser­vices Di­vi­sion; the Teach­ing Fra­ter­ni­ty, which was re­ceived by the T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion; the Nurs­ing Fra­ter­ni­ty, which was re­ceived by the T&T Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion; the old­est ed­u­ca­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions in Port-of-Spain—Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege which marked a 150 years, Bish­op Anstey High School (100 years) and Fa­ti­ma Col­lege (75 years).