Regular feature writing on victims of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and consultations with youths and other stakeholders to find the best ways to highlight and tackle the regional epidemic were among commitments made by journalists last Saturday, at the conclusion of a two-day workshop in Barbados.
Journalists representing various sections of the media in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica and St. Vincent all described the workshop, hosted by the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), as informative and an “eye opener.”
Peter Richards, an editor at the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) in Trinidad, said that as someone who lost relatives to