Journalist Jubair honoured with British Curry Awards

Mohammad Jubair, Chief Reporter of ChannelS has been handed special recognition for media coverage of the curry industry& Community during the pandemic at this year’s British Curry Awards, whichwere hosted online for the first time. This recipient is a selflesshumanitarian & journalist for Channel S for over many years. He hastirelessly kept the community well informed with his unique style of investigativeand informative reporting, and fair analysis, and delivering groundbreakingstories on community including chef shortages, the vindaloo visa, restaurantclosures, as well the continuous government guidelines policies surrounding thepandemic.His reports and work focus primarily on issues affecting the BAME andMuslim community. Despite being extremely busy with his media production,Jubair still manages to make time for Media based community work. A major partof his voluntary work occurred through London Bangla Press Club (LBPC), wherehe has been working tirelessly for the last 17 years. He is currently a secondterm elected General Secretary.

The 16th annual ‘British Curry Oscars’ wereheld in association with Just Eat yesterday (17 December). This year’s eventwas hosted by Rory Bremner, with awards presented by high profile celebrities,such as model Caprice, Jess Wright from The Only Way is Essex, Love Island starAmy Hart, Rageh Omar TV broadcaster, TV chef Brian Turner and former tv newsreader presenter Alistair Stewart. A host of politicians, including Mayor ofLondon, Sadiq Khan, former culture secretary Baroness Nicky Morgan, formerbusiness secretary Sir Vince Cable, and shadow international trade secretaryEmily Thornberry, Chris Grayling MP also handed out prizes.

This year’s awards celebrated theindustry’s unsung heroes of the pandemic (please see full awards list, below),as well as the early ‘curry pioneers’ who created the industry we know and lovetoday in the 1960s and 1970s. The ceremony also acknowledged the many hundredsof thousands of meals the curry industry has given to essential workers,including those on the NHS frontline, since coronavirus reached the UK.

In an introduction for the awards, primeminister Boris Johnson said: “We are all experiencing very challenging times inthe wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly for the UK restaurant industry.It is therefore heartening and fitting that the theme for this year’s event isto reward and celebrate all the unsung heroes in the restaurant industry duringthe pandemic.

British Curry Awards founder Enam Ali MBEsaid: “I am delighted that we have been able to keep the Curry Oscars goingeven through this traumatic time. The winners this year are among the mostexceptional we have known, feeding our friends, loved ones, and those who havedefended us throughout this awful pandemic.

Mohaammed jubair said, I am truly humbled& honoured for this recognition, but I am surprised as I was alwaysopposite side of the stage of British curry awards, last 15 Years I did reporton so many winners, at this corvid-crisis time I am the recipient. As ajournalist, I never thought I would be winner of curry Oscar, interestingly itis not for curry, for my contribution within media for industry & community’

Jubair Also received an award from CanaryWharf Group Plc in recognition of his leadership of the Press Club andcontribution to the society. Additionally, he received Sunrise Today MediaAwards and Eastwood Awards for ‘Best TV News Reporter’. He is listed as one ofthe British Bangladeshi Power and Inspiration (BBPI) and recognized as BritishBangladeshi Who’s Who.