The event brought together some 60 media owners and managers, journalists, broadcasters, CARICOM officials and heads of media training institutions from CARMAC, UWI and the Barbados Community College.

UNESCO: Education

The Workshop is being organized within the framework of UNESCO's Information for All Programme in collaboration with Commonwealth Library Association (COMLA) and the University of the West Indies (UWI).

UNESCO: Communication and Information

For instance, recent studies by the University of the West Indies (UWI, 1995), Griffith (2002) and Pacheco (2004) revealed that over 20% of the adult population (aged 15 and above) are illiterate and about 40% of the youth population (aged 15 to 24 years) are functionally illiterate.

UNESCO: Adolescent Development Programme