Richard Charan has had a 25-year career in journalism and is employed as the multimedia editor with Caribbean Communications Network, the parent company of the Express and TV6. Charan’s writing has earned him multiple awards, including the MATT/RBTT media award for excellence in journalism, and then a PAHO award for feature/investigative writing. Last year, Charan won several CBU media awards for news and investigative writing. He is also the author of The Histtory Project, a long-running series in the Express newspaper. He has since collaborated with Ian Randle Publishers Limited out of Jamaica to publish the book titled The Village of One. Charan is also co-authoring a biography on one of Trinidad’s famed artists, and is also working on two non-fiction novels.