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Former independent senator and journalist Sunity Maharaj said suspension of advertising is a press-freedom issue. She said in the changing media landscape, it is vital that traditional media is given the resources to remain viable.

In May, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said a reduction in media advertising was among her government's cost-cutting measures.

Speaking at the launch of journalist Richard Charan’s book A Village of One: Essays on Trinbago’s Past, Places, People at the Central Bank Museum, on August 26, Maharaj said the viability of the media was essential.