JAMAICA-MEDIA-IPI said TVJ chairman engaged in censorship

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) said that the chairman of the board of Television Jamaica Ltd. (TVJ) Milton Samuda, had engaged in censorship when he restricted the questions to be asked of two Olympians last month. In a letter to the Chairman of the RJR Communications Group, Lester Spaulding, IPI executive director, Alison Bethel McKenzie said she was expressing her “profound concern regarding allegations of an egregious attack on press freedom perpetrated by...Samuda. “Mr Samuda not only interfered last month with the questioning of two of the country’s star athletes accused of using banned performance-enhancing drugs, but he took into his possession the video recorders of two journalists in order to remove questions they had asked during the interview.”