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A brief history of the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication.

CARIMAC started in 1974 with 31 students doing a one-year diploma in Mass Communication.

The Caribbean Institute 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 Institute was therefore created to give regional communicators a Caribbean orientation with professional grounding while ensuring that Caribbean media and communication performed while assisting the region’s development.

CARIMAC started in 1974 with 31 students doing a one-year diploma in Mass Communication. In 1977 the Institute 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 Behaviour Change.

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