| TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
STORY NARRATIVE
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
BARBADOS ANTIGUA & BARBUDA
SAINT LUCIA
Rescue Narratives Advocacy Stories
7
0 3 2 0 2 5 0 9 4 0 5
0 0
0 2 0 0 2 5 0 2 5 0
13 19 18
Migrant Stories
12
Victimization Narratives Stories Related to Children
0
8
1
Press Releases
15
4 0
Political Narratives/Sensational
24 20 28
Legislative
1
Related to US TIP Reports Human Interest Perspectives
7 0 2
3
Sexual Slavery/Sexual Labour 2 Table 14 – Story narratives based on angles covered by media in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago for the period June 2021 to June 2023. The detailed logs are in this report as Appendix 6 94
Apart from the above, there were some other angles, and these are noteworthy and illustrated below as screenshots.
It is also common that some media houses pick up reports on TIP as regional stories and republish them in an effort to show the commonality of the issue from a regional perspective and to also report on the precedents within the region. Trinidad Express has done this more than the other newspapers and it may be based on the content exchange agreement they have with RJR Gleaner group in Jamaica which owns 5% of the shares in One Caribbean Media, the parent company of the Trinidad Express. Therefore, some regional stories may be replicated in these countries.
62 A Media Analysis of the Coverage of Youth Involvement in Crime and Violence and Trafficking in Persons (June 2021 to June 2023) in the Eastern Caribbean
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