Dominic Kallipersad is a veteran journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

, and one of the most recognizable faces in Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

. He is currently the Head of News at the flagship television arm of the Caribbean Communications Network

Caribbean Communications Network

The Caribbean Communications Network Ltd. also known as the "CCN Group" Ltd., is a subsidiary of ONE Caribbean Media Limited. In December, 2005 both the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Communications Network and the Barbados-based Nation Corporation entered into a merger agreement for...

, CCN TV6. He was previously the Editor In Chief of the Trinidad Guardian

Trinidad Guardian

The T&T Guardian is the oldest daily newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago. Founded in 1917, the Guardian is published by the Trinidad Publishing Company. The newspaper was published as a broadsheet since inception but changed to tabloid format, known as the "G-sized Guardian", in November 2002...

newspaper which he modernized from its old broadsheet

Broadsheet

Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages . The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet...

 format into a tabloid.

Dominic is best known as a news anchor of Panorama, the 7.00pm flagship newscast of the now defunct Trinidad and Tobago Television

Trinidad and Tobago Television

The Trinidad and Tobago Television Company ', was a national television broadcaster in Trinidad and Tobago. The company operated two stations, ttt on channels 2 and 13 and Alternative Television on channels 9 and 14...

 (TTT), 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

CCN TV6

The Caribbean Communications Network Television 6 ' is the largest private television broadcaster in Trinidad and Tobago. The station operates an analog composite NTSC 525 television system, broadcasting on channels 6 and 18 in the island of Trinidad, channel 5 on the Flow Cable System and channel...

, the position which he is again currently the holder of. He previously served at the Cable News Channel Three as a news anchor filling in for then news anchor, Carla Foderingham

Carla Foderingham

Carla Foderingham is a former television news presenter in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She is a former anchorwoman at CCN TV6, Gayelle - The Channel and Cable News Channel 3. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Film Company of Trinidad and Tobago.Carla began her television...

 alongside Shelly Dass

Shelly Dass

Shelly Dass-Clarke was a television news presenter in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago through May 2010. She was anchor of the nightly newscast on Cable News Channel 3.-Childhood and early career:...

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In 1990, he was one of the hostages at Trinidad and Tobago Television during the Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt

Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt

On Friday 27 July 1990, 114 members of the Jamaat al Muslimeen, an Afro-Trinidadian Islamic organisation, led by Imam Yasin Abu Bakr and Bilaal Abdullah attempted to stage a coup d'état against the government of Trinidad and Tobago. Forty-two insurgents stormed the Red House and took the Prime...

.Baldeosingh, Kevin (27 July 2008). Journalist recalls TT’s ‘Days of Wrath’. Trinidad & Tobago's Newsday, Retrieved December 10, 2010