Caribbean PR industry
Discovering public relations in the Caribbean
Public relations in the Caribbean has grown more sophisticated over the years, with practitioners increasing the value of the profession, and navigating unique stakeholder issues in the developing world. You’d know this if you’d experienced it firsthand, but not if you scoured journals, trade magazines, books or the Internet. There is a glaring absence of […]
Communicators communicating
Members of the International Association of Business Communicators - Trinidad and Tobago (IABC T&T) mingle after the Association’s first annual general meeting, which was held yesterday at the Courtyard Marriot, Invader’s Bay, Port of Spain.
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IABC comes to Trinidad and Tobago
Great news! The International Business Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Trinidad and Tobago Chapter was formed last month. According to the Trinidad and Tobago Express newspaper, dated August 30 2006, 21 local corporate communication and marketing professionals became members of the IABC in August, thereby establishing the local chapter.
According to the newspaper article, “local communicators […]
Perceptions of public relations
One thing my research in Trinidad and Tobago has taught me is that nothing defines public relations more than the perception and structure of the function in an organisation. I say this because despite all “strategic this and that” that public relations is supposed to be, it’s greatest challenge to being an intrinsic component of […]
There’ll always be PR
It’s amazing that ‘big’ companies you’d expect to have a public relations function don’t have one. Companies that are ‘big’ names in the business world, who operate multi-million dollar profits, and who seem to have a high profile.
I discovered this when I was contacting companies to get specific contacts for public relations practitioners. “Oh”, the […]
