(Trinidad Express) The Government’s move to nominate two people to the One Caribbean Media board of directors has arisen out of what Minister in the Ministry of Finance Brian Manning yesterday described as its concern for the “precipitous decline in the value of OCM shares”.
He was responding to a motion of adjournment filed by Senator Wade Mark asking the Government to explain its recent nominations of two directors to the OCM board.
Government is seeking to get insurance executive Dale Mcleod and Shakka Subero, head of Government Relations at Digicel, as directors on the OCM board.
Speaking in the Senate yesterday Manning insisted that it had nothing to do with freedom of the press or with any intention to influence the editorial direction of the media companies—CCN TV6, the Express newspaper and radio station i95.5 FM-which are part of the OCM Group.
