The Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MATT) is join­ing the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty in ob­serv­ing World Press Free­dom Day 2026, mark­ing the 35th an­niver­sary of the Wind­hoek De­c­la­ra­tion.

The as­so­ci­a­tion ex­pressed sol­i­dar­i­ty with jour­nal­ists and me­dia work­ers across the coun­try, de­scrib­ing them as part of the Fourth Es­tate and front­line guardians of trans­paren­cy and truth in T&T.

This year’s theme, “Shap­ing a Fu­ture at Peace: Pro­mot­ing Press Free­dom for Hu­man Rights, De­vel­op­ment, and Se­cu­ri­ty,” comes against what MATT de­scribed as a sober­ing back­drop fol­low­ing a de­cline in the coun­try’s stand­ing in the 2026 World Press Free­dom In­dex pub­lished by Re­porters With­out Bor­ders (RSF).