sentences:  He resigned his position as editor-in-chief of the Guardian newspapers along with the majority of his senior editorial team during a confrontation with the government and publishers over freedom of the press, and became one of the pioneers of a new but now defunct newspaper, the Independent.Madeira then moved into public health communication, serving as Information Adviser at the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre, an arm of the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation, in a unit designing and implementing information, education and communication projects in support of the Caribbean response to the AIDS epidemic.After almost a decade in that position, Madeira moved to the position as Manager/Adviser of the Communication Unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Health.