Caribbean Free Radio » Info http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog The Caribbean's first podcast - almost live from Trinidad and Tobago! Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:02:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 2006-2007 caribbeanfreeradio@gmail.com (Caribbean Free Radio) caribbeanfreeradio@gmail.com (Caribbean Free Radio) 1440 http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/promo/CFR-badge.jpg Caribbean Free Radio http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog 144 144 The Caribbean's first podcast - almost live from Trinidad and Tobago! Caribbean Free Radio Caribbean Free Radio caribbeanfreeradio@gmail.com no no Caribbean journalists, do you wish to be “regularised” by CARICOM? http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/2009/10/16/caribbean-journalists-do-you-wish-to-be-regularised-by-caricom/ http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/2009/10/16/caribbean-journalists-do-you-wish-to-be-regularised-by-caricom/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:15:57 +0000 Georgia http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/?p=991 Posting this notice circulated this morning on Facebook by the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago (MATT, when are you going to get yourselves a proper, public-facing web site?). A copy of the document in question can be viewed here. I urge others to publicise this matter widely:

"Wesley Gibbings, president of the ACM [Association of Caribbean Media Workers], says:

This is to advise of the imminent introduction of a Model Professional Services Bill to Caricom member states which calls for, among other things, the registration and licensing of media workers.

The bill is meant to 'regularise' and harmonise standards among professionals in a wide range of categories under the ambit of the CSME.

The subject was raised at a CSME workshop in St Lucia on October 12 by Caricom officials.

I have already advised that this matter is not subject to negotiation. It is a well-established fact that the licensing of journalists constitutes an outright threat to freedom of the press and other rights. There is also a growing body of international judicial precedents which determines its unlawful nature.

The ACM is moving quickly to nip this in the bud. We are inviting a senior Caricom official to discuss this matter with us at the forthcoming conference and fifth biennial general meeting in Grenada on December 10-12. Hopefully, the outcome will be a very clear message to have this withdrawn as a proposal to Caricom member states.

This is dangerous territory and I am urging all of us to use the tools at our disposal to publicise this issue and to act decisively to ensure the model Bill, especially as it relates to media workers, does not reach anywhere near our parliaments.

We will be mobilising international support for the campaign."

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