Chris Laird

Christopher Laird, has been a teacher, published the arts journal Kairi and ran a theatre in Port of Spain during the 1970s. He has produced over 300 documentaries, dramas and other video productions with Banyan Ltd. over the past 30 years garnering a score of national, regional and international awards.

He has been Managing Director of Banyan Ltd. for the past 30 years and has overseen the establishment what is arguably the world’s largest collection of Caribbean culture on video in the Caribbean Film and Video Archive. He is now CEO of Gayelle: The Channel, the region’s first all Caribbean free to air television station which he co founded with Errol Fabien in 2004.