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The ACM Executive: Standing - Wesley Gibbings, Michael Bascombe,
Peter Richards; Sitting - Bert Wilkinson, Dale Enoch, Nita Ramcharan &
Canute James. |
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The Association of
Caribbean Media Workers (ACM)
acmmail@gmail.com is an organisation of journalists and media worker
associations spanning the Caribbean Basin.
It was established in
Bridgetown, Barbados on November 28, 2001 at a meeting of media worker
organisations and media practitioners from Anguilla, Antigua and
Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Dominica,
Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, St
Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.
Since that inaugural
meeting, the group has grown to include journalists and media workers
from Belize, Suriname, St Maarten, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominican
Republic, Haiti and US-based Caribbean journalists.
The ACM has partnered
with agencies such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO),
United Nations Information Centre for the Caribbean (UNIC), United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO),
Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC), Caribbean
Congress of Labour (CCL), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and
Caribbean Environmental Health Institute (CEHI) on a number of
professional development projects and seminars.
The organisation also
serves on the Advisory Council to the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on
the CARICOM Single Market and Economy where we have been arguing the
case for the expeditious implementation of the free movement provisions
of the CSME with respect to media workers in the region.
Its President also sits
on the Regional Advisory Board of the Jamaica-based Caribbean Institute
for Media and Communication (CARIMAC).
The ACM is also
associated with the International News Safety Institute (INSI) and
collaborates with Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), the International
Freedom Exchange (IFEX), the Knight Center for Journalism in the
Americas and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on matters
related to maintenance of the free press.
