Caribbean PR industry

Profiling Caribbean Public Relations Series

I know I haven’t written regularly in the past two weeks or so, and again it’s because my offline life is so busy. By the time, I’m finished with work, finished working on private jobs, worked out at the gym, and returned home, I’m spent. But, I’m planning to fix this. Seeing that I’m not […]

Online media - the future of Caribbean advertising?

Integrating online communications in marketing and public relations campaigns are an off and on venture in the Caribbean. Not all companies do this, some do it well, and some even when they try, they don’t do it right.

The argument has always been that the penetration rates in this region are not as high as that […]

Trinis named PR pioneers in Jamaica

Republished from the Trinidad Express

Two Trinidadian Public Relations Consultants, Corina Meeks (nee Achong) and Marcia Erskine (nee Mentore) have been named Public Relations Pioneers by the Jamaican based Caribbean Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). The organisation is aligned to the IABC Intl headquartered in California which represents over 16,000 PR practitioners, […]

Starting the Barbados Public Relations Association

Christal P. Mc Intosh (who I’m not sure is related to me, but we’re working on finding that out) is a Barbadian public relations practitioner who’s very excited about developing the profession in her home country. Christal and I hooked up through my blog when she noticed my post about the Caribbean Communicators group on […]

Caribbean Chapters join the IABC Southern Region

To better support Caribbean chapters’ growth, the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) recently transferred the IABC Caribbean (Jamaica chapter) and IABC Trinidad and Tobago chapters and the members-at-large in the Northern and Southern Caribbean from the Canada East Region to the U.S. Southern Region, to which we are geographically closer. The move became effective […]