WIN TV says it's not planning a Basdeo Panday talk show

WIN TV confirmed to JYOTI on Monday that it is not planning to have former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday host a regular talk show on its television service.

A senior official said, "It's not true," in response to a querry about a report in the Trinidad Express that Panday might be doing a political show on the station.

The Express quoted Panday as saying that the management of WIN TV has asked him to consider doing a show. "I was approached and will be meeting with the management of the station...If their terms and conditions are satisfactory I will certainly consider it," the paper reported Panday as saying.

The report said Panday could be taking up the time slot that was allocated to the Crime Watch show that was dropped recently. However it said Panday won't be replacing Ian Alleyne.

"Oh no, I am not taking over any such show. Mine will be political so that it will be a voice for the voiceless, similar to what I have been doing at the Basdeo Panday Foundation," the Express quoted Panday as saying.