(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Five journalists from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be awarded for excellence in reporting on climate change adaptation and mitigation when the eleventh Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) formally opens on Wednesday afternoon at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua and Barbuda.
The competition for which the awards will be presented, was organized by the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) and the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA).
The awardees are Desmond Brown who won in the Best Print Category with an article titled `Anguilla Battles Shrinking Shoreline’; Jeffrey Town who won in the Best Radio Story category with a piece titled `Climate Change’; Isari Ceyetano who won in the Best Television with a story titled `Coral Bleaching’, Zadie Neufville who won the top prize in the New Media category for an article titled `Food Security Hinges on Shaking Agricultural Fortunes’, and Shahad Ali, citizen journalist and youth participant, who won an award for his article `Can Humans Survive Climate Change’.
This is the second year that regional journalists will be awarded at the CWA for outstanding reporting in the area of agriculture. Last year, journalists from Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana and St. Kitts and Nevis won awards. The focus on climate change this year was geared at encouraging broader and more indepth reporting specifically on adaptation and the effects of climate change on the Region.
The competition was open to all Caribbean journalists in print, broadcast and new media for work done between August 2011 and August 2012. The organisers added the category of Citizen Journalism to encourage awareness and participation of youth in the Caribbean on Climate Change issues.
CWA officially opens at 5pm.
