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2025 CARIBBEAN MEDIA SUMMIT Evolving Media Business Models in Turbulent Times AI, Journalism and the Future

In Collaboration With

Ms. Kiran Maharaj President, Media Institute of the Caribbean WELCOME MESSAGE

Welcome to the Caribbean Media Summit 2025 in Georgetown, Guyana. It is my privilege, as President of the Media Institute of the Caribbean, to extend a warm greeting to all delegates, speakers, and partners gathered under the theme “Evolving Media Business Models in Turbulent Times – AI, Journalism and the Future.” The Caribbean media landscape stands at a crossroads. Our region’s journalists and media organizations face unprecedented challenges-shrinking advertising revenues, the relentless advance of artificial intelligence, and the ever-present risk of natural disasters that test the resilience of our infrastructure and the sustainability of our business models. Between 15 and 25 percent of our advertising revenues are already diverted to global tech platforms, intensifying the pressure on local newsrooms to innovate or risk marginalization. Artificial intelligence, while offering powerful tools for automation, data analysis, and audience engagement, also brings risks - deepening inequities, enabling the spread of misinformation, and threatening the financial viability of independent journalism. The democratization of information access through AI is a double-edged sword: it can empower our societies, but without robust governance, it may erode public trust and the very foundations of our media institutions. This summit is a call to action. We must advocate for equitable AI governance that prioritizes public interest journalism and explore new revenue models that blend innovation with ethical responsibility. Collaboration is essential, across borders, sectors, and generations, to ensure that Caribbean media not only survives but thrives in this “Brave New World.” Our commitment remains steadfast: to defend press freedom, foster media and digital literacy, and invest in capacity building relating to all aspects of journalism and media advancement including media viability and disaster preparedness. The Caribbean must continue to tell outr stories and amplify our news. We must persevere to serve the public good, even in the most turbulent times. Let us seize this moment to shape a resilient, independent, and forward-looking Caribbean media ecosystem. I wish you all a productive and inspiring summit.

Ms. Nazima Raghubir President, Guyana Press Association REMARKS

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) is pleased to be associated with and provide support for this important activity being executed by the Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC) and hosted by the University of Guyana. The central theme of this year’s Caribbean Media Summit—“Evolving Media Business Models in Turbulent Times”—is both timely and critical. Across the region and the globe, the media industry faces unprecedented shifts brought on by rapid technological advancement, economic pressures, and changing audience behaviours. These factors have significantly impacted how journalism is practised and how media houses sustain their operations. The GPA believes that addressing these realities requires a concerted, collaborative, and forward-looking approach. As an organisation concerned about the practice of and maintenance of high professional standards in the Guyana media, the GPA recognises the challenge of changed and changing

technological and other circumstances on the very survival of independent media.

With traditional revenue streams in decline, and new digital platforms constantly reshaping the landscape, media practitioners and institutions must innovate while maintaining their ethical compass and journalistic integrity. This Summit presents a valuable opportunity for dialogue, knowledge sharing, and the development of viable strategies to ensure the resilience of media in the Caribbean. It brings together stakeholders from diverse backgrounds - journalists, academics, media owners, and policymakers - to engage on solutions that are regionally relevant and globally informed. The GPA remains committed to supporting initiatives that strengthen journalism, encourage innovation, and safeguard press freedom. We are especially proud that this important conversation is taking place in Guyana, providing a space for local and regional voices to contribute meaningfully to the future of Caribbean media. We look forward to the outcomes of this Summit and stand ready to work with our partners to ensure that media in our region not only survives but thrives in these turbulent times.

Professor Paloma Mohamed Martin Vice Chancellor XI, The University of Guyana REMARKS

On behalf of the University of Guyana and, more specifically, the Centre for Communication Studies (CCS), which trains journalists and media practitioners from Guyana and other parts of the Caribbean, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 2025 Caribbean Media Summit. The University’s Centre for Communication Studies and the Department of Events, Conferences and Communications (DECC), alongside the executive and members of the Guyana Press Association and the Media Institute of the Caribbean, have collaborated over these past months to plan this conference and to ensure that it provides a memorable experience and delivers an actionable agenda The theme of this conference is as relevant as it is provocative: Evolving Media Business Models in Turbulent Times ─ AI, Journalism and The Future. To my mind, this theme suggests that we would want to interrogate how AI (technology) is impacting the business of journalism in turbulent (hyper disrupted) times, and how this will in turn impact the future (the evolving now). In this context, we might ask ourselves if a revision of the role of the media and its products in response to irreversible and sustained change in human dynamics is required. Given the ubiquity of social media and the real-time dissemination of all forms of information, traditional news outlets must either leverage their unique strengths or undergo radical transformation to remain viable and relevant. The industry must explore new models to bring developing stories to the forefront swiftly. This may mean the creation of a new form of inter-organizational syndication. Journalistic investigation must now incorporate the myriad streams of information supplied by emerging technologies, which are sometimes employed in informal contexts. Media houses must leverage their vantage point to make effective use of ground-level information. They must become deeply engaged in mastering new technologies and learn to manipulate and deploy these tools to gather, parse, produce, and disseminate media content responsibly, accurately, widely, and with collective fidelity to efficiency, speed, and present realities. Additionally, the traditional formats of journalism must be reevaluated, as long-form reporting may no longer align with the evolving preferences of current and future consumers. Again, time and attention are key. What is needed is the adoption of QUUC—Quick, Understandable, Ubiquitous, and Comprehensive. Those journalists and media houses capable of achieving this balance are likely to succeed in the evolving media landscape. To the fraternity, let me say again: the work you do matters. The way you do it matters more. You must survive and thrive if our world is to evolve in a bearable, free and sustainable way.

Caribbean Media Summit 2025

Friday 23 May 2025 rd OPENING CEREMONY: 9:00am to 10:15am

Master of Ceremony Wesley Gibbings Vice President, & CoFounder Media Institute of the Caribbean

Opening Statement Kiran Maharaj President, & CoFounder Media Institute of the Caribbean

Welcome Remarks Professor Paloma Mohamed-Martin Vice Chancellor University of Guyana

Keynote Address State of Media Viability Globally

Juan Senor

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Friday 23 May 2025 rd

Panel Discussion: Diversifying Revenue Streams in a Turbublent Era

10:30am to 12:00 Noon

Panellist Anthony Greene President Caribbean Broadcast Union

Panellist Soyini Grey General Secretary Association of Caribbean Media Workers

Panellist Kenton Chance Director Online News Start-Up IWitness

Panellist Anand Persaud Editor-in-Chief Stabroek News

Moderator Kiran Maharaj President, & CoFounder Media Institute of the Caribbean

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1:00pm - 1:30pm

AI Roadmap for the Caribbean

Presenter - Dr. Paul Hector Advisor for Communication & Information UNESCO Office for the Caribbean

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Leveraging Data Driven Approaches for more Targeted Audience Reach - Lessons from Digital Advertising

Presenter Douglas Ames WebFX

2:45pm - 4:00pm - Breakout Sessions

Changing Dynamic of News Content - Creating Interest and Audience Traction

Presenter Andrew Beatty Agence France Presse

Presenter Denis Chabrol Demerara Waves

Content Monetization Roundtable

Moderaor Nazima Raghubir President Guyana Press Association

Moderator Anthony Greene President Caribbean Broadcast Union

Caribbean Media Summit 2025

Saturday 24 May 2025 th Innovations Shaping the Future of Media

9:00am - 10:00am

Presenter Mike Reilley

Fireside Chat: Fostering Public Trust in the Age of Disinformation

10:15am - 11:15am

Panellist Dr. Seeta Shah Roath Lecturer University of Guyana

Panellist Silvia Bacher UNESCO LAC MIL Alliance

Moderator - Nelsonia Persaud Former Director, Centre for Communication Studies Lecturer University of Guyana

Panellist Wesley Gibbings Vice President & CoFounder Media Institute of the Caribbean

Panellist Nazima Raghubir President Guyana Press Association

Caribbean Media Summit 2025

Saturday 24 May 2025 th

Journalism Innovation: How Media Labs are Shaping the Future of Media and Journalism

11:15am - 12:30pm

Presenter John Mills

Presenter Ana Cecilia Bisso Nunes

Roundtable Discussion: Audience Engagement & Community Building

1:30pm - 2:00pm

Presenter Kiran Maharaj President, & CoFounder Media Institute of the Caribbean

All participants - virtual and in person - in the room will be provided with a worksheet to do a fun activity.

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Feature Address Friday 23 May 2025 rd JUAN SENOR

Juan Señor is the President of INNOVATION Media Consulting Group in London - one the world's leading media consultancies. He has worked with and advised hundreds of media companies on every continent directing transformative projects. He also serves on the advisory board of several media groups. He is also a former Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has been listed as one of 'The World's Leading Innovators' in Journalism and Media' by Journalism UK. Mr. Señor is a highly-sought commentator on the media industry, speaking at global forums and quoted frequently in leading publications such as The Economist and The Financial Times. He is co-editor of two annuals books; Innovation in News Media and Innovation in Media, written on behalf of WAN-IFRA and the FIPP respectively. Altogether he has edited 32 books. He worked for seven years as a war and conflict reporter for PBS's NewsHour. He then became a presenter for EBN-Wall Street Journal TV and CNBC Europe. And he served as London correspondent of International Herald Tribune Television then owned by The New York Times and The Washington Post. His work has been nominated for an EMMY and his television programme, Media Report, was voted by viewers as Europe’s Best Business Programme. He continues to work as a live event and television host and presenter. He has hosted the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for 14 years, Reinvention Festival for a decade, and dozens of public speaking engagements every year as a keynote speaker or moderator. In addition to his passion for the media business, he is a campaigner for disabilities via means of fundraising expeditions to the ends of the earth. He has skied unsupported to the North Pole, crossed the Western Sahara, trekked the Amazon, and organised the first-ever expedition to the South Pole of a team with physical disabilities. A Spanish national, he was born and raised in Barcelona and educated in Europe and New York. He is conversant in six languages.

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SOYINI GREY

Soyini Grey is an award-winning multi-media reporter. She got her start in the early days of the Caribbean New Media Group (C.N,M.G., now TTT) before they had set up the television arm. Therefore, her introduction to media was producing news for radio and online. Today, she is a Senior Producer at CNC3, which is part of Guardian Media Ltd, prior to that she was the Lead Anchor at Ecuador-based teleSur English. She is a general journalist with a special interest in Caribbean Culture, Mental Health and the Environment. Ms. Grey believes that Art and Culture reporting is extremely important in a place like Trinidad and Tobago, because its rich history and customs are unmatched and worth exploration. She is interested in developing into a documentary filmmaker and keen social commentator whose work is anchored in research. She hopes to work towards producing Caribbean focused news products so that the region becomes more aware of what is happening with each other, to that end she serves as Secretary of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers.

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KENTON CHANCE

Kenton Chance is a Vincentian journalist based in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). He is the executive editor of iWitness News, a news website that he founded in 2009, when he was a university student. He is also a correspondent for the Barbados-based Caribbean Media Corporation and has done commissioned work for a range of regional and international media outlets. With Mr. Chance at the helm, iWitness News has maintained its editorial independence amidst the headwinds of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the eruption of La Soufriere volcano in 2021, and amidst three election cycles (with elections in SVG expected later in 2025). Mr. Chance has over two decades of experience in journalism and holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication, both from Ming Chuan University in Taiwan. He is the only Vincentian to have received the Distinguished Taiwan Alumni Award, which the government of Taiwan presented to him in 2022 for his pioneering work at iWitness News.

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DR. SEETA SHAH ROATH

Dr. Seeta Terry Shah Roath is a lecturer at the Center for Communication Studies and a Thesis Supervisor in the Faculty of Education and Humanities. An international journalist for more than 10 years, she has worked throughout the Caribbean, North America, Asia, and Latin America. Dr. Shah Roath is also a creative Non-Fiction writer for novels,

short stories, screenplays, and stage plays. She is also a Theatre Arts Director for stage locally and regionally.

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DR. JOHN MILLS

Dr John Mills is a lecturer in digital innovation and transformation at the Liverpool Business School and founder and director of Archen Innovate - a consultancy specialising in user-centred innovation, audience research and emergent technologies. John specialises in user-centred approach to research and innovation, exploring how new technologies could be utilised by communities, publishers and individuals. His interests include the Internet of Things, wearables, drones, interactive print and other connected platforms. He has worked with communities, audiences, newsrooms and media executives in the UK, Europe, Africa and Asia to support their innovation activities and impact.

Previously, he has worked as a senior editorial manager, establishing digital newsrooms throughout the UK and virtually.

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ANA CECÍLIA BISSO NUNES Ana Cecília Bisso Nunes is a journalist, researcher, and professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Brazil, specializing in news innovation and media labs. With over a decade of experience studying and visiting innovation labs worldwide —particularly in media and journalism— she has developed academic and professional experience in Portugal, the United Kingdom, Colombia, the United States, Germany, and Norway. She is a collaborating member of the iNOVA Media Lab at NOVA University Lisbon and an integrated researcher at the Center for Global Studies at Universidade Aberta (UAb). Ana Cecília is co-author of Innovation in Creative Industries: Trends and Labs to Reinvent Media and Business (originally published in Portuguese, with an English version likely coming soon) and has co-authored executive reports and academic papers on media labs in English. She is also the coordinator of IDEAR, an interdisciplinary entrepreneurship and innovation lab at PUCRS. Her work blends academic insights with practical experience in fostering creative, future-oriented, and entrepreneurial environments in the media and journalism industry.

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WESLEY GIBBINGS

Wesley Gibbings is a Trinidadian journalist, author, media trainer, and press freedom advocate with over four decades of experience in the media industry. His career encompasses extensive work in print, broadcast, newswire, and online platforms, focusing on Caribbean public affairs and media development. Gibbings has been a pivotal figure in Caribbean journalism. He is the founding president of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) and has served multiple terms as president of the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago (MATT). Currently, he holds the position of Vice President at the Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC) and serves on the Governing Council of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) and the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD). His commitment to press freedom has earned him international recognition. In 2017, he received the Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist Award from the U.S. National Association of Black Journalists for his work in promoting press freedom in the Caribbean. He has also been honoured by the Trinidad and Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association with e Lifetime Achievement Award.

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NAZIMA RAGHUBIR Nazima Raghubir is a print and broadcast journalist based in Guyana. She has been in the media all her working life as a writer, reporter, managing editor and news presenter with stints at Prime News, as editor of “Insight” public affairs journal, and as a stringer/correspondent and fixer for several regional and international news organisations. In 2018, she became the first woman to head the now 81-year-old Guyana Press Association and in 2020 she was elected to head the Association of Caribbean Media Workers which represents national media associations across the Caribbean. She is Vice President of ACM, a position she was elected to in 2023. Additionally, she was re-elected President of the Guyana Press Association in 2023. She sits on the Board of the Media Institute of the Caribbean and the University of Guyana Broadcasting Trust. Nazima has also authored and edited several print and multimedia productions including a published guide to the Parliament of Guyana, documentaries covering development and human rights issues, and numerous conference presentations. Among these are the State of the Caribbean Media Report which was produced by the ACM and funded by IFEX and A Situation Report on Misinformation and Disinformation which was produced by the Public Media Alliance with support from UNESCO. She also served as an observer for the Commonwealth for elections in Pakistan in 2024 and Trinidad and Tobago in 2025. In her native Guyana, she is viewed as a reliable resource for the mentoring of new and young journalists and as a supporter of human rights. Social media handles: Twitter - @nazrag Instagram - @nazrag

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KIRAN MAHARAJ

Kiran Maharaj is President and Co-Founder of the Media Institute of the Caribbean. She is a Past President of the Trinidad & Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association (TTPBA) and is also Managing Director of Caribbean Lifestyle Communications in Trinidad and Tobago. In that capacity, she founded Heartbeat Radio 104.1 FM, the world's first radio station for women. Among her academic and professional qualifications are undergraduate degrees in Literature, Journalism, and Business Administration and Marketing. She also holds certificates from the Harvard Business School in Effective Media Strategy and The Business of Entertainment Media and Sports; and NYU in Events Marketing and Management. Kiran has also benefited from a Fellowship in Broadcast Leadership and Management from the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington DC. In April 2019, she was a Women of Courage awardee by the United States Embassy in Port of Spain. In 2017 she wrote and produced the documentary Paradise in Peril documenting the situations in Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda after hurricanes Irma and Maria.

She is co-author and lead researcher of UNESCO’s Media Viability Indicators global pilot study (Jamaica) and has led several other research initiatives on the media landscape of the Caribbean.

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ANTHONY GREENE Anthony Greene is a senior executive with 24 years’ experience in broadcast and print media. He is currently the General Manager at Starcom Network Inc., the leading broadcasting company in Barbados with four radio stations. Prior to his appointment as General Manager, he held the post of Programming/Content Manager from 2016 to 2021. Anthony is the President of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU), and also serves as a director on the boards of Innogen Technologies Inc. and Pearl's Dance Academy. Before returning to the media industry in 2016, Anthony was the Marketing Manager at Unicomer Barbados Limited, trading as Courts, a Furniture and Appliance company with retails outlets throughout the Caribbean. Anthony has a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communication with First Class Honours from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus and a Master of Science in Project Management & Evaluation with the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. One capstone early in his tenure as General Manager is the raising of the profile of Starcom Network as a high performing business within the One Caribbean Media group portfolio, though faced with the Covid-19 pandemic and other external challenges. During this period the company has also further strengthened its market share of radio listenership in Barbados. Anthony is particularly passionate about media as a powerful agent of transformation. He also believes in a leadership ethos of empowering people to make a positive difference in our world.

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SILVIA BACHER

Silvia Bacher is the Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean for UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Alliance. She is a journalist specializing in education. She holds a degree in Literature and a Master's degree in Communication and Culture from the University of Buenos Aires. She hosts Rayuela on Radio Splendid. She collaborates with various print media. She was awarded First Prize for the Dissemination of Educational Content by the University of Buenos Aires in 2009 for her program Queremos Saber (We Want to Know) on Radio Continental. She is recognized for her career by the International Book Foundation and Fund TV. She previously hosted Cátedra Libre (National Radio), Queremos Saber on Radio Continental, Ciudadanias.com (City Radio), and Pensar Más (Metro Channel), and is a columnist for the news program Visión 7 (Public TV). Author of Tattooed by the Media, Dilemmas of Education in the Digital Age (Paidós). Honorable Mention for the Best Book on Education in 2010, awarded by the International Book Fair and the UNESCO Dialogues on Communication and Youth, she has written numerous articles for national and international publications. She directs the non-profit organization Las Otras Voces (The Other Voices ). She is a member of the Advisory Council on Audiovisual Communication for Children (AFSCA). She is a recipient of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship, the Salzburg Seminar, and UNESCO Paris in the area of communication. She has served as a Visiting Professor in the Postgraduate Department at the National University of La Plata (UNLP). She has consulted for national and international organizations in the design and management of communication, education, and youth programs, including the National Network of School Radios: Learning with the Radio, the Regional Network Among Young People: Communication and HIV (UNESCO), the Radio Program in Rural and Border Schools (UNICEF), and the Voices and Images of Young People in MERCOSUR (UNESCO-OEI). She served as General Coordinator of Journalism, Communication and Education for the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (1988–2001).

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ANAND PERSAUD

Anand Persaud is the Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News, a position he has held since 2009. He was previously Editor of the newspaper and began his career as a journalist in 1989.

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MIKE REILLEY Mike has been a lecturer in data and digital journalism at the University of Illinois Chicago for the past eight years and is a digital tools trainer in the Google News Initiative training program. He also owns Penny Press Digital, LLC, a digital consulting company. Mike has trained more than 14,000 journalists, students and teachers in digital tools since 2016, speaking at conferences, journalism schools and in newsrooms in 42 states. He has done more than 425 trainings in the Google program and dozens more for other clients such as Gannett. In 2015 and 2016, Mike was the director of digital production and professor of practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. He and his digital production students rebuilt, updated and produced multimedia, mobile stories and data visualizations for Cronkite News, the news division of Arizona PBS. His group also built the Carnegie-Knight News21 Weed Rush and Nicaragua: Channeling the Future sites. He taught several classes over 6 1/2 years as a faculty member at DePaul University, including Reporting for Converged Newsrooms, Online Journalism I, Online Journalism II, Mobile Journalism, News Editing and Multiplatform News Editing. In winter 2011, he launched The Red Line Project with students in his Online Journalism II class. The site won many national and regional awards — including honors from ONA and Editor & Publisher. His UIC students continue to publish to it today. He also served as founder and faculty adviser the SPJ/ONA DePaul student organization. The group was named the 2013 and 2011 SPJ National Campus Chapter of the Year, Region 5 Campus Chapter of the Year three times and was DePaul University’s 2012 Outstanding Student Organization. Reilley was named DePaul’s Outstanding Faculty Adviser in 2012 and won SPJ’s David Eshelman Award for Outstanding Campus Adviser in 2013. Mike is a former reporter and copy editor at the Los Angeles Times and was one of the founding editors of ChicagoTribune.com. He’s a former digital news editor at WashingtonPost.com and helped run the 2000 Summer Olympics copy desk for AOL. Mike also founded the AI tools site, The Journalist’s Toolbox. He also blogged about the Chicago Bears for two seasons on the NFL Blog Blitz site. Mike has more than 2,500 bylined stories as a professional reporter, covering teams such as the Los Angeles Rams, Anaheim Angels, Chicago Cubs, college sports and recruiting. He has written for MediaShift’s EducationShift page, and had an article published in 2003 in the Columbia Journalism Review about incorporating computer-assisted reporting and research cross-curriculum. Mike has a master’s degree in journalism/newspaper- media management from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He graduated at the top of his class at Medill and received the Harrington Award, the school’s highest academic honor. He taught full-time at Medill from 1997 to 2000. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was editor of his college newspaper, The Daily Nebraskan.

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ANDREW BEATTY

Born in Northern Ireland. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Andrew began his journalistic career in Brussels, covering European Union foreign policy for the EUobserver.com and later the Economist Group. He was correspondent for Reuters in Panama, before joining AFP in Washington to cover the Federal Reserve and Treasury in Washington during the global financial crisis. In a decade and a half with AFP, he has reported from dozens of countries and had postings in Haiti, Libya, South Africa, Australia and twice in the United States, including four years as White House correspondent during the Obama and Trump administrations — travelling with POTUS as part of the tight White House pool.

He has been AFP’s Deputy Latin America editor based in Bogota since January 2025.

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DENIS CHABROL

Mr. Denis Chabrol is an award-winning Caribbean journalist. He has been working in the media industry since 1984 in the technical, production, on-air and news and current affairs fields of broadcasting. In the area of journalism, he is the pioneer of Online journalism in Guyana, having founded Demerara Waves Online News. During his almost forty (40) years in the media, he has worked for several Caribbean and international media organisations, including Radio Antilles, Christian Science Monitor, Caribbean News Agency, the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Caribbean Service, and Agence France Presse. Denis started his media career as a High School intern at the now-defunct state-owned and controlled Guyana Broadcasting Corporation. He is a former executive member of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers and the Guyana Press Association. Previously, he served as the Caribbean representative on the Global Forum for Media Development and represented the Caribbean at World Press Freedom Day conferences in Ghana and Indonesia. Denis is the holder of a Bsc Degree in Communications from the University of Guyana, in addition to participating in several professional development courses by the Voice of America, Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, and Reuters News Agency. Though based in Guyana, he considers his outlook as encompassing the Caribbean and further afield. He is a strong advocate of ongoing training and education in both technical and non-technical aspects of media as well as adherence to the conventional standards of journalism to counter unethical practices, misinformation and disinformation while pursuing the truth in service of the public's interest.

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PROF PALOMA MOHAMED Prof. Paloma Mohamed is the eleventh Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana. She is a full Professor of behavior and strategic communications, noted as a futurist scholar for her work on change in both humans and human systems. Her recent work on the effects of technology on human life systems is of international interest. She is the first woman to lead the University in its 62-year history. She is also the first woman to be appointed Vice Chancellor at any University in the Anglo-phone Caribbean. Prof Mohamed has led the University of Guyana’s Transitional Management Committee as its 2nd Chair since Aug 2019. She has also been Deputy Vice Chancellor for Philanthropy, Alumni and Civic Engagement, known as PACE, a department which she founded in 2016. Prof. Paloma Mohamed has also served as an adjunct Professor of cultural diplomacy at Trent University. She has won the coveted Guyana Prize for Literature on 3 occasions. She has been awarded two Presidential Medals, in 2012 and in 2015, as well as A City of New York Award for Culture in 2013, 1n 2014, she was named by the US embassy in Guyana amongst the top 5 most influential women in the country. In 2015, she became the first woman Caribbean Laureate for Excellence in Arts and Letters, considered the Nobel Prize of the Caribbean. Her literary and academic work are on two CXC syllabi and is studied in Universities in the USA, Canada and England. Prof. Mohamed has authored over 20 books and produced 15 films. She was Artistic Director for Carifesta X held in Guyana in 2008. She founded CineGuyana in 2009 and also currently serves as Chair of the Theatre Guild of Guyana. Prof Paloma Mohamed Martin is a beloved teacher and humanist who has been variously referred to as a servant leader and a Titanium Butterfly.

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