Dominic Kallipersad

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Dominic Kalipersad, in a 1995 advertisement for The TV6 News, which he co-anchored with Francesca Hawkins.
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Dominic Kalipersad is a veteran journalist, and one of the most recognizable faces in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. He is currently the Group Head of News at Caribbean Communications Netowork (CCN). He was previously the Editor In Chief of the Trinidad Guardian newspaper which he modernized from its old broadsheet format into an exciting broadloid.

Dominic is probably best known as a news anchor of Panorama (the 7.00pm flagship newscast of the now defunct Trinidad and Tobago Television) from the late 1970s to early 1990s. He was later Programme Director at the Trinidad Broadcasting Company, and the News Director and anchor at [CCN TV6]. In 1990, he was one of the hostages at Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT), during the Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt.