Integrity makes you do what is right even when no one is watching. It is a perceptive insight, and we shall be guided by its wisdom.

Ken Gordon was chairman of the first private television station in the English-speaking Caribbean.

He began his career in journalism in broadcasting as a radio announcer for Radio Trinidad in 1949. He would go on to play a pivotal role in the establishment of the Trinidad Express Newspapers; a daily newspaper created out of the collapsed Daily Mirror, which had been purchased and shut down as a competitive newspaper.

He took up the position of Managing Director with the new paper in February 1969.

Mr Gordon took the company public in 1991 as the Caribbean Communications Network, following up the success of the Express, he founded CCN TV6 and Prime Radio; the first new broadcast media houses to be established a newly liberalised media landscape in Trinidad and Tobago.

It was the beginning of newly competitive media industry.

He became chairman of the media group formed with the consolidation of all the company’s media assets, One Caribbean Media, which today includes businesses in Barbados and Grenada.

President of Queen’s Park Cricket Club Ken Gordon left presents Ricky Skerritt, the new President of Cricket West Indies with memorabilia in 2019. Photo by Sureash Cholai, courtesy of TTNewsday.

He served in that role until 2006 when he retired and became chairman of the West Indies Cricket board.

In 2011, he was appointed chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Integrity Commission.

Ken Gordon’s autobiography, Getting it Write: Winning Caribbean Press Freedom was published in 1999.
He is married to Marguerite Gordon and has four children.