The Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MATT) is vow­ing to pro­tect jour­nal­ists from cen­sor­ship, fol­low­ing a warn­ing from the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT).

This fol­lows a sto­ry aired on CNC3 last Wednes­day, which fea­tured a news con­fer­ence where for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley re­ferred to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as a jamette. At the time, Row­ley was re­spond­ing to the PM’s claims that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s Bal­isi­er House was fund­ed by drug mon­ey.

In re­sponse, TATT cau­tioned the me­dia about con­tent aired on tele­vi­sion and di­rect­ly warned CNC3 about the sto­ry.