Insisting that there were no political or religious motives behind the decision to pull Fazeer Mohammed from a talk show on the state-owned Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG), Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday that the company was not severing ties with him, just reassigning him.
However, Mohammed, who had been working for the company since June 2007, appears set to walk away from CNMG altogether.
He was removed from the ‘First Up’ programme last weekend, two days after he and Foreign Affairs Minister Surujrattan Rambachan clashed on the morning show. Mohammed had asked the minister about Persad-Bissessar’s comment that Trinidad and Tobago had to benefit from aid given to neighbours affected by Hurricane Tomas, but Rambachan then questioned Mohammed’s views on women in leadership positions.
Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar echoed earlier statements by the CNMG management that Mohammed was removed from the programme as part of the company’s restructuring and cost-cutting measures.
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