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These small island states have small, relatively modest economies as evidenced by their low GDP per capita - US$13,826 for Barbados, US$9,051 for Grenada and US$7,297 for St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Accordingly, media houses have modest resources when compared to more developed countries and newsrooms struggle to fill the required minutes and column inches for content. As such, it is understandable that with an emphasis on generating the required amount of content, the quality of content may suffer. The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) is a network of journalists, media workers and media associations spanning the Caribbean Basin. It was established in Barbados in 2001. Its membership includes media professionals and their representative associations from countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the French and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. ACM has organized training programmes on a wide variety of subjects across the Caribbean and is a strong regional advocate of freedom of expression and press freedom. ACM has also published biennial State of the Caribbean Media Reports and Our Children, Our Media – Reporting Guidelines on the Coverage of Children amongst others. Barbados and Grenada have media/press associations that advocate for media rights, the Barbados Association of Journalists and Media Workers and the Media Workers Association of Grenada. Both are members of ACM. St. Vincent & the Grenadines does not have media or press associations, but the ACM has a designated point person who acts on their behalf and liaises with local journalists as is needed. Impediments to Reporting All countries reviewed exhibit impediments to reporting and these impediments occur inside media houses as well as externally.
Not surprisingly, media in all 3 countries note that their capacity and resources are stretched thin. With 177 media workers spread across 71 media outlets between all countries (table 4.) that gives an average of 2.49
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