sentences:  The current expanded efforts at regional broadcasting in the Caribbean grew out of those early efforts by Madeira and a German counterpart, Michael Abend, who was made available to the CBU by the Freidrich Ebert Stiftung to develop news exchanges among radio and television systems in the region.For his contribution to the development of regional broadcasting, Madeira was inducted into the prestigious Caribbean Broadcasting Hall of Fame, which now includes noted Trinidadian media personalities as Ken Gordon, who served for several years as Chairman of the Caribbean Communications Network (CCN) and a pioneer of the Caribbean News Agency and a champion of Caribbean Press Freedom, and Trevor McDonald, who was for several years the leading television news anchor in the United Kingdom.Following Trinidad and Tobago Television, Madeira again diversified his career by becoming manager of news and current affairs and Caribbean relations of the Trinidad Broadcasting Company, the same company where he began as an amateur broadcaster, and editor-in-chief of the Trinidad Publishing Company Limited, the first media house that hired him as a journalist.