a1194: FWD: ACM PRESS CONFERENCE ON HAITI (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Yacine Khelladi <yacine@yacine.net>

From:  "Association of Caribbean Media Workers" caribbeanmedia@yahoo.com
ACM PRESS CONFERENCE ON HAITI
                          Date:
                               Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:24:48 -0800 (PST)

                      ACM HOSTS PRESS CONFERENCE ON HAITI

                      Port of Spain, Mar 12, 2002 – The Association of
                      Caribbean Media Workers will be hosting a Press
                      Conference on Wednesday March 13, 2002 at Ebony
Radio
                      104 FM at 8.30 a.m.

                      ACM President, Wesley Gibbings, and Vice
President,
                      Bert Wilkinson of the Guyana Press Association
will
                      discuss the recent ACM Mission to Haiti and
                      recommendations for addressing the problems of
Haitian
                      journalists.

                      The Press Conference will be broadcast live in
several
                      Caribbean countries and local journalists will be
                      joined by reporters in Haiti, Antigua, Dominica
and
                      Guyana during the event.

                      Interested persons can monitor the broadcast on
                      www.homeviewtnt.com by choosing the site for
104FM.
                      Questions can be e-mailed at radio104@tstt.net.tt
or
                      you can call us live at (868) 628-5864.

                      The ACM was invited by the Association of Haitian
                      Journalists to visit the country in the aftermath
of a
                      series of attacks on the media including the
murder of
                      broadcaster Brignol Lindor.

                      Several journalists have either gone into hiding
or
                      have sought refugee status in the United States
and
                      elsewhere.

                      The ACM is a grouping of national media worker
                      organisations and individuals in Anguilla, Antigua
&
                      Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin
                      Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti,
Jamaica,
                      Martinique, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St Vincent
and
                      the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.


                      =====
                      For further information contact:
                      Wesley Gibbings, President: (868) 645-4145
(Trinidad)
                      Desmond Allen, General Secretary (876)755-0023
(Jamaica)