sentences:  After five years in this position, Madeira assumed the position as the first full-time Secretary General of the CBU.After establishing and running the CBU office for a year out of Bridgetown, Barbados, he returned to Trinidad and Tobago to assume the position of Public Relations Manager of the National Insurance Property Development Company Limited (NIPDEC),a major state enterprise involved in construction and property management, including such projects as the Trinidad and Tobago Financial Complex, the Trinidad and Tobago Hall of Justice, the Trinidad and Tobago Forensic Sciences Centre, the Hugh Wooding Law School, and several of the country's mass public housing estates.Madeira re-entered mass media as head of news and current affairs of Trinidad and Tobago Television, a position he held even during an attempted coup by a fundamentalist Muslim organisation, the Jamaat al Muslimeen, in July 1990.