MORE PICTON

Neil Beekhee of CNC 3 also took a stab at the Picton story.
He had one looong soundbite from a man saying he had been shot once before and he was calling on the government to provide him with housing outside the area.
If you had chopped about 30 seconds off that soundbite, it would have been perfect.

Then you said the residents complained about the 'disrespect of officers'. Well Neil if you saw or heard the disrespect first hand then it's fine to say I saw or heard it myself.
But if you are getting hearsay information, you MUST say 'According to the residents...' or 'The residents say...', otherwise it looks like you as the reporter are also pointing the accusing finger and owning that statement.
At least you got a response from the Police Commissioner.

And your colleague Samuel McKnight also got in on the act, following the area representative NiLeung Hypolite as he visited the burnt out ruins of the homes.
Throughout the story there were no supers, so for the hearing impaired you could have been speaking to any old Joe.
Then the very last shot of your story with Mr Hypolite standing looking at the smoking ruins should have been your opening shot. Write to your pictures and use your most compelling images first.

And was it in your story that Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj made some statements to the effect that if the gang situation is not dealt with then down the road judges will have to pay protection money to these criminals?
Why let him make those baseless statements without asking him to provide some empirical evidence to support, just like he would have to do in a court of law?