Allyson Hennessy was a veteran Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

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 television news presenter

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. She was trained in the United Kingdom

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.

Media career

Hennessy entered at Trinidad and Tobago Television

Trinidad and Tobago Television

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 and hosted the program Community Dateline

Community Dateline

Community Dateline was a television show in Trinidad and Tobago. It ran for many years on Trinidad and Tobago Television Channel 2 and 13 at 11.00 am-12 noon on weekdays until Trinidad and Tobago Television was closed on January 15, 2005. The hosts were Allyson Hennessy together with Judy...

 for several years with other presenters including Wendell Constantine, Judy Alcantara, Lisa Wickham

Lisa Wickham

Lisa Wickham is a Media Producer-Director-TV Personality in Trinidad and Tobago. She is a former TV Presenter with Trinidad and Tobago Television where she was the host of the daily morning prime time news and talk show "T&T This Morning" , host of the daily mid morning talk show Community...

 (1999-2000) and Judy Chong Dennison until 2005 when the station closed. In 2009 she was received the "Media Excellence" award from the Trinidad & Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association.

In 2010, she began co-hosting The Box, a daily TV talk show on the Gayelle

Gayelle

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 network, with a talk show format styled after the U.S. morning program The View. She also had her own television program, Allyson 10-12. Hennessy was a familiar face as host of carnival

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 activities and special events.

Veni Mangé

A Cordon Bleu

Le Cordon Bleu

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 trained chef, Hennessy was a co-owner of the Veni Mangé Restaurant.

Death

Hennessy fell ill in late April 2011, with an undisclosed illness, and was hospitalised in the intensive care unit

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 at a the St. Clair Medical Centre in Port-of-Spain. She never recovered and died at St. Clair Medical on May 7, 2011, aged 63.