Ke­jan Haynes

The Com­mon­wealth Ob­serv­er Group (COG) re­port on the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion de­scribed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s me­dia as vi­brant and large­ly in­de­pen­dent but raised con­cerns over the im­bal­ance in ac­cess to state me­dia and the vis­i­bil­i­ty of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) dur­ing the elec­tion cy­cle.

The COG said while the me­dia played an im­por­tant role in in­form­ing the pub­lic and fa­cil­i­tat­ing elec­toral en­gage­ment, reg­u­la­to­ry and in­sti­tu­tion­al re­forms are need­ed to pro­mote bal­ance, trans­paren­cy, and ac­count­abil­i­ty in po­lit­i­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tions.