Dr Claire Grant, general manager for broadcast services at the Jamaica-based RJRGLEANER Group, has been elected chair of the board of directors of the Barbados-based Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU).

In a statement, the CBU said Grant, who had also been elected president of the regional media grouping, replaces Kayleaser Deveaux-Isaacs, and praising her for her ”sterling service” to the grouping.

Deveaux-Isaacs, the former general manager of the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas (ZNS), has been a member of the board since 2017, as vice-president and president.

Richard Purcell, the general manager of CCN TV6 in Trinidad and Tobago, will fill the post of vice-president.

The board has agreed to fill the remaining vacancy for a ninth director, during its 53rd annual General Assembly to be held in Trinidad and Tobago from August 15-17.

MORE THAN THREE DECADES OF INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

The CBU is a not-for-profit association of public service and commercial broadcasters in the Caribbean, reaching over 4.8 million people in the region.

As a regional institution, it facilitates discussion and analysis that assist in policy formulation on major integration issues.

Grant is a media professional with more than three decades of industry experience across print, television, radio and Over the Top Television (OTT) – with hands-on delivery of news reporting, copy editing, product editing, subediting, marketing, and sales management, general management, and strategic leadership.

She was appointed general manager of Television Jamaica (TVJ) and Television Jamaica Sports Network (TVJ-SN) on September 1, 2012.