Jamaica gleans new kudos
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Gleaner journalists took four prizes, Carl Wint, the News Editor, took the prize for Most Outstanding Journalist (Print); Tony Becca, the Sports Editor, was awarded the prize for Outstanding Sports Writer; Delroy White-Hall, reporter, won the Outstanding News/Feature Writer award; and Gillian Baldeo, feature writer, gained the prize for Best Small Business Story (Print).
In addition, the Gleaner also won the award for service to the community, through its Newspaper in Education project.
The Montserrat-based Radio Antilles won three prizes--Peter Richards, Outstanding Journalist (Radio); Du'ai Richards, for Promoting Regional Integration; and Keithstone Graces shared the prize for Outstanding News/Feature Presenter (Radio) with Olu Waldron, of Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Barbados. Other prizes went to William Bradshaw, of the Nation newspaper, Barbados (Outstanding Investigative Journalist); Rattan Jadoo, of the Trinidad Guardian (Outstanding Photographer-Print); Brian Carter, of Trinidad and Tobago Television (Outstanding News/Feature Presenter); and Julius Gittens, of CBC-TV, Barbados (Outstanding Journalist).
Mr. Ainsley Sahai, Executive Officer of the CPBA, disclosed that the prizes for the best Small Business Story and for Promoting Regional Integration were donated by the CARICOM Secretariat.
All other prizes were donated by the CPBA and by the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU).
The spectre of press censorship was raised in Jamaica early this month when the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr. Glen Andrade, spoke of the possibility of a Board of Censorship set up to vet local newspaper publications.
Mr. Andrade's remarks, made at a service club luncheon, was directed at the The Weekend Enquirer, a tabloid published by the Jamaica Record, the country's latest daily newspaper. In the DPP's view, the contents of the tabloid were in bad taste and bordered on obscenity. But he was reluctant to take legal action against the publication. Rather, the setting up of Board of Censors might be the better route.
His proposal did not meet with general acceptance. The Gleaner in an editorial, while deploring the type of journalism being practised by the offending tabloid, warned the censorship threat could lead to an abrogation of press freedom. The Press Association of Jamaica also came out against the suggestion while, at the same time, being critical of the publication involved, accusing it of indulging in "gutter" journalism.
