Media representatives inAnguillajoined their counterparts, in the 8-member island grouping of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), in attending an Economic Workshop for Media Practitioners on Tuesday this week.
The workshop was held at the ECCB Headquarters in St. Kitts and transmitted to the other territories via video conferencing facilities to the participants at the various Agency Offices:
ECCB’s Senior Director of Corporate Relations, Ingrid Short, welcomed the participants to the workshop. “This workshop signals our appreciation for your years of partnership with us …to advance our public education programme and also to deepen that partnership,” she said.
Ms. Short explained that the objective was to ensure that as media practitioners they had the information and understanding to enhance their effectiveness in covering stories related to the economies of the ECCU member countries, and events that were relevant to the Currency Union.
The workshop outline included such matters as what was meant by economic growth; measuring economic growth; sources of economic growth; what accounts for faster growth in some countries; and economic growth trends in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union.
The participants in Anguilla were Ivor Hodge of Radio Anguilla; Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Pickering of KCN Television and Hermina Webster, who represented The Anguillian.
They were briefly joined by Marilyn Bartlett-Richardson, the Agency Representative in Anguilla and Patricia Payne-Webster, Secretary.
