Overview
The Caribbean School of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) started in 1974 out of research by the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and a subsequent partnership between the University of the West Indies and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation (FES). ;The school was therefore created to give regional communicators a Caribbean orientation with professional grounding while ensuring that Caribbean media and communication performed while assisting the regions development. ;CARIMAC began with 31 students doing a one-year diploma in mass communication. In 1977 the school introduced a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication, followed in 1994 by a Master of Arts in Communication Studies and in 2004 by a Master of Arts in Communication for Social Behavior Change. CARIMAC therefore celebrates its 44th anniversary this year against the background of a stellar history of dynamic growth, and a thematic focus on intensifying our mandate of designing for development.