ACM UPDATE

February 7, 2006 - The ACM, in collaboration with UNESCO, is hosting a two-day workshop on covering Education issues in St Lucia on February 14-15, 2006.

Journalists have been drawn from the OECS and Barbados media. Participants will be exposed to the latest developments on the UN’s Education for All initiative and will have the opportunity to interact with senior education officials from the UN system and CARICOM.

ACM President, Dale Enoch; Vice President, Peter Richards; Executive Member, media trainer Canute James and senior St Lucian journalist and media trainer Jerry George will be among the resource persons at the workshop.

The event is the first in a number of training initiatives to be convened by the ACM this year. Our online course on Newspaper Feature Writing commences in March and, later that month, we are planning a special symposium on coverage of HIV/AIDS.

The ACM executive is also in discussion with several other developmental partners to host training workshops and seminars on a wide range of other issues.

ACM General Secretary, Wesley Gibbings, will attend the February 9-13 Caribbean Media Exchange in Puerto Rico where he will speak on “A New Vision for Caribbean Programming”.

This week, Enoch is in Suriname where is attending 15th anniversary celebrations hosted by the Association of Surinamese Journalists.