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The Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MATT) is call­ing on News­day’s man­age­ment to be open and trans­par­ent with its work­ers fol­low­ing the com­pa­ny’s clo­sure.

In a re­lease, MATT said the loss of any jour­nal­is­tic in­sti­tu­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go “rep­re­sents a loss of cul­ture, na­tion­al mem­o­ry and his­tor­i­cal record”. MATT not­ed that em­ploy­ees had served News­day with dis­tinc­tion and ded­i­ca­tion through­out its 32 years of op­er­a­tion, de­spite an ever-chang­ing me­dia land­scape.

The MATT Ex­ec­u­tive said it was dis­turbed to learn that the ma­jor­i­ty of em­ploy­ees were not con­sult­ed be­fore the wind­ing up of the com­pa­ny and on­ly be­came aware of the de­ci­sion last Fri­day (Jan­u­ary 9, 2026), min­utes be­fore the fi­nal hard-copy edi­tion was due to go to press.