The Caribbean School of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) started in 1974 out of research by the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization (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 region’s development.

 

CARIMAC started in 1974 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.