Jones P. Madeira

Jones P. Madeira is a journalist from Trinidad and Tobago.

Madeira began his career as an amateur broadcaster with the Voice of Rediffusion, a wired radio channel of the Trinidad Broadcasting Company which also operated the Radio Trinidad station. His first professional position in journalism was in the print media as a reporter with the Trinidad Publishing Company, publishers of the Guardian newspapers. He did general reporting including the Magistrates's and High Courts of the country, firstly from the city desk, and then promoted to man the operations of the bureau of the media house at Piarco International Airport for several years.

Madeira eventually branched off to full-time broadcasting as a News Editor/Reporter with the state-owned National Broadcasting Service, which operated NBS Radio 610. He is well remembered for his coverage of the 1970 Black Power Revolution. He received a fellowship and was also seconded to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London for advanced broadcast training, and became a producer with the Overseas Regional Services of the BBC, broadcasting out of Bush House, London. He returned home later and rejoined NBS 610 as Senior Producer, News and Current Affairs.

Madeira then left broadcasting to become an Adviser in Media Relations and Public Information at the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), serving the Caribbean region out of Georgetown, Guyana, under contract from the London-based Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation (CFTC). He was part of a team under UNESCO Consultant and Broadcast Executive Hugh Cholomondeley of Guyana, and including fellow Trinidadian broadcaster Dik Henderson, Guyanese broadcaster Ron Saunders, and Guyanese diplomat Evan Drayton, responsible for promoting the Caribbean integration movement. Their work included the further development of the Caribbean News Agency (CANA) and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU), and the expansion of the co-operation of electronic media houses in the Caribbean in the areas of programme production and exchanges, engineering and broadcast training. After five years in this position, Madeira assumed the position as the first full-time Secretary General of the CBU. After establishing and running the CBU office for a year out of Bridgetown, Barbados, he returned to Trinidad and Tobago to assume the position of Public Relations Manager of the National Insurance Property Development Company Limited (NIPDEC),a major state enterprise involved in construction and property management, including such projects as the Trinidad and Tobago Financial Complex,the Trinidad and Tobago Hall of Justice, the Trinidad and Tobago Forensic Sciences Centre, the Hugh Wooding Law School, and several of the country's mass public housing estates.

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