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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.