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Thursday, August 26th, 2004 - Practitioners in the field of Catholic
Communications from several countries of the Caribbean region and Latin America,
together with representatives from the international Catholic communications
body, SIGNIS and the Latin American Catholic organization, OCLACC, met in
Trinidad from 16th - 17th August, 2004.
Arising out of the meeting, the practitioners agreed to form a regional
Communications Organization open to membership from countries that belong to the
Caribbean Catholic Bishops’ Conference (AEC) as well as other countries in the
region that wish to participate in this initiative. They also agreed to set up
the necessary mechanism to exchange information, ideas, resources and media
productions among members. Sub committees were formed to develop a Constitution
for the organization, to communicate with the Antilles Episcopal Conference (AEC),
to facilitate the communications process between the member countries and to
plan and fund the agreed activities including the first meeting of the new
organization which will be held in May 2005.
Participating countries and organizations at the meeting included Antigua,
Barbados, Belize, Curacao, Dominica, Guyana, Santa Domingo, St. Lucia, Suriname,
St. Thomas and Trinidad and Tobago. SIGNIS, the official international Catholic
organization responsible for communications and OCLACC the Catholic
Communications Organization for Latin America facilitated the two day meeting
and provided valuable insights to participants.
Msgr. Patrick A.B. Anthony
Archdiocesan Press Officer
Archdiocese of Castries, St. Lucia
Tel: (758) 485-3520; (758) 716-2257
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