Gibbings elected to IFEX

Vice President of the Media Institute of the Caribbean and former president of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM), Wesley Gibbings, has been elected to the Council of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) at the organisation’s Biennial General Meeting Berlin, Germany on 10th April 2019.

Gibbings is now one of 13 international members of the organisation’s governing council with the other members coming from Europe, Latin America, India, Africa and the Middle East.

Between 2017 and 2019, he served as a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean alliance of IFEX. Gibbings said the Caribbean experience “brings insights into small size and diversity to the international table.”

He referenced his participation in the establishment of the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago in 1986 and his role as inaugural president of the ACM. In 2017, he was recognised by the US National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) for his work in the promotion of press freedom in the Caribbean and received it Foreign Journalist Award.

He now serves as Vice President of the Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC), incorporated in Jamaica.