LEAD MATERIAL?

Why was Sasha Mohammed's report on Dr Tim Gopeesingh's meeting with Trevor Paul and Martin Joseph worthy of the lead story slot in the 7pm news on Monday?
The lead in told us they met, the intro to the first sot told us they met, as well as what the basis of the meeting was, then up comes the soundbite from Tim on why they decided to meet.
What was the significance of that sot? You actually wasted time there, by writing in reverse. And why didn't the editor chop out Sasha's instructions to Tim? And what was the outcome of the meeting?
You know Sasha, the next time you write a story with Tim Gopeesingh as the main item we may be tempted to believe the Mirror's story that you are a UNC mole.

Then there were two back to back packages from Sharmilla Persad. You have to admit hers is not the best voice over at your station. You have lots of voices now like Karen Cozier Phillip, Keisha David, Charlene Stuart, Nathalie Chrysostom, Yolanda Morales Carvalho, Shabaka Kambon, Marcia Hope, Fabien Pierre and even the weather man is voicing stories on global warming. So why do you have the same reporter's voice in one segment? It actually tells the viewer that you are short staffed.

The newscast should have started with Sharmilla's first story on the five murders, then moved to "In light of the country's increasing murder figures, an opposition mp has snagged a one on one meeting with the national security minister and the police commissioner to address the situation.", then bring up Sasha's report, followed by the two soundbites from the commissioner, not another Sharmilla report.

And missing from Sasha's report was at least a token sentence telling us that the minister and the commissioner refused to comment on the meeting, or that they could not be reached for comment.