Neil Giuseppi, writing in another paper recently, opened his article with the words: “I shed a tear last Friday night. I shed a tear as I watched the end of an era in Trinidad and Tobago.” He was, of course, writing about the demise of the National Broadcasting Network (NBN). And as I read his reminiscences, many of which were also mine, I shed a tear too.
If people remember me as a broadcaster at all, it is usually for my TTT years. But there may just be some older folk who have not forgotten that I was also among those “privileged” few who opened Radio Guardian (610) in September 1957. Becoming part of the NBN network later, this radio station too has now been silenced. So, a double whammy for me