For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has crit­i­cised the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) for re­view­ing the me­dia’s broad­cast of his “jamette” com­ment, ques­tion­ing why the reg­u­la­tor had not act­ed dur­ing past po­lit­i­cal con­tro­ver­sies.

In a Face­book post yes­ter­day, Row­ley sug­gest­ed that TATT’s scruti­ny re­flects a broad­er trend of me­dia sup­pres­sion seen in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

He asked, “You sound sur­prised by the TATT awak­en­ing. Isn’t that threat­en­ing of the me­dia part of what is hap­pen­ing abroad and very well known to us for copy­ing here?”