Kenneth Gordon (born 1930) is a

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businessman and former politician.

Biography

After attending Saint Mary's College in

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, Trinidad, he went away to the United States and the United Kingdom for further studies. He entered broadcasting in 1949 as a radio announcer for Radio Trinidad. He later became chairman of a conglomerate. In 1986 he was appointed a Minister of Tourism under the

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as a senator. He married three times, his present wife being Marguerite Gordon. He has four children. He was instrumental in introducing the first private television station in the English Caribbean,

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, and Prime Radio, which was owned by Trinidad and Tobago Express Newspapers Limited, in 1991. He was the chairman of that company until 2006 when he became chairman of the

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. On 28 October 2011, he was appointed Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Integrity Commission. His autobiography, ''Getting it Write: Winning Caribbean Press Freedom'', came out in 1999 from Ian Randle Publishers.Desmond Allen, "Thanks 'Butch' for 'Getting it Write'", ''Jamaica Gleaner'', 3 January 2000.
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"Ken Gordon, a jewel of the Caribbean".
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