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I can still re­mem­ber when CNC3 start­ed.

At the time, I was the Di­rec­tor of News and Cur­rent Af­fairs at the Caribbean Me­dia Cor­po­ra­tion (CMC), head­quar­tered in Bar­ba­dos, li­ais­ing dai­ly with re­gion­al news­rooms for the pur­pose of shar­ing mul­ti­me­dia con­tent and pro­duc­ing two night­ly half-hour re­gion­al tele­vi­sion news pro­grammes.

Our mantra then was, “On­ly the sun cov­ers the Caribbean bet­ter than we do.” But en­ter­ing the hori­zon was this new and ex­cit­ing Trinidad-based TV sta­tion with some “hot shot” re­porters and pre­sen­ters who were de­ter­mined to be seen — and we couldn’t help but sit up and take no­tice.