British High Commissioner says the U.K government is committed to media’s freedom of expression

In response to the Prime Minister’s statement regarding the British Broad­cast­ing Cor­po­ra­tion’s (BBC’s) re­cent doc­u­men­tary on T&T’s Venezue­lan amnesty reg­is­tra­tion ex­er­cise –

British High Commissioner to Trinidad & Tobago, Tim Stew said the British Government is committed to the media freedom of expression.

And thus will not interfere with the media house affairs.

The BBC pro­gramme, ‘The Dis­placed’, which start­ed air­ing on so­cial me­dia yes­ter­day, fo­cused on Venezue­lans seek­ing bet­ter­ment here via Gov­ern­ment’s reg­is­tra­tion dri­ve over May 2019 to June 2019.

The Gov­ern­ment had stat­ed that 16,523 Venezue­lans reg­is­tered.

The Prime Minister said despite the figures on record it didn’t pre­vent the BBC from go­ing out of their way to mis­rep­re­sent the po­si­tion on T&T.