Media and Editorial Projects Limited
Media and Editorial Projects Limited (MEP or MEP Caribbean Publishers) is a private publishing company based in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[1]
The company was established in 1991 by Jeremy Taylor[2] and Joanne Mendes. Its board of directors includes Managing Director Taylor; Financial Director Mendes; Chairman Susan Dore; Caroline Taylor; and Secretary Hugh Williams.
MEP currently publishes Caribbean Beat (the inflight magazine of Caribbean Airlines bimonthly;[3][4][5] free destination guide Discover Trinidad & Tobago[6][7] annually; and subscription-based newsletter ENERGY Caribbean, bimonthly.
Past publications have focussed on Trinidad & Tobago and/or Caribbean business, culture or tourism, including the Trinidad & Tobago Business Guide; the Caribbean Review of Books (CRB) (now an independent non-profit entity); Youth At Risk (for the UNDP: United Nations Development Programme); The Point Lisas Story; the Citibank Investment Guide to Trinidad & Tobago; BWIA's Caribbean; The ALM Caribbean Explorer; Hi-Time; Trinidad & Tobago Destination Guide; the Trinidad & Tobago Exporter; and the Trinidad & Tobago Export Directory.[8]
In 1994, the company established a book imprint called Prospect Press. It ceased operations in 2008. From 1994 to 2008, it published books on Trinidad & Tobago and/or Caribbean biography, art, and natural history, including:
- Julian Kenny's Views from the Ridge (2008 reprint, ISBN 976-95057-0-6), Flowers of Trinidad & Tobago (2006, ISBN 976-95057-8-1), Orchids of Trinidad & Tobago (2008, ISBN 978-976-95082-4-8)[9] and A Naturalist's Notes: the Biological Diversity of Trinidad & Tobago (2008, ISBN 978-976-95082-3-1)
- Ken Bhoodoo's The Elusive Eric Williams (2002, ISBN 976-95057-2-2)
- Luise Kimme's Halcyon Days: Sculpture 1987-91 (2002, ISBN 976-95057-3-0), Resurrection To Dance (2003, ISBN 976-95057-6-5), and Bolero
- CLR James' Letters From London (2003, ISBN 976-95057-4-9)
- Richard ffrench's A Naturalist's Year (2007 ISBN 976-95082-0-9)
- Jeremy Taylor (writer)'s Going to Ground (1994, ISBN 976-8052-08-2)
- Russell Barrow's Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: A Photographic Atlas[10]
- Stewart Hylton Edwards' The Toco Road and other Poems of the West Indies
- Wilfred Best's Tikasingh's Wedding
- The Abbey: Mount St. Benedict
- the Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA)'s Wetlands of Trinidad and Tobago (2010, ISBN 978-976-95082-6-2)[11]
- Joy Rudder's The Old House and the Dream: The Story of the Asa Wright Nature Centre (2009, ISBN 976-95082-1-7)[12][13]
References
- Publishers Global: Trinidad & Tobago
- Going to Ground Again by Vaneisa Baksh (Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, 13 December 2008)
- "Caribbean Beat to be sold in stores...magazine marks 100th issue" by Yvonne Baboolal (Trinidad Guardian, 6 December, 2009)
- "The ‘Beat’ is back" by Anne Hilton (Trinidad & Tobago Newsday, 24 January, 2008
- "T&T Lit Fest Puts Us to Shame" by Carolyn Cooper (Jamaica Gleaner, 8 May 2011)
- "A Poor Precedent" by Suzanne Mills (Trinidad & Tobago Newsday, 2 September, 2007)
- "Magazines Team up with TTFF" (Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, 4 October, 2011)
- "Looking for the big ticket" by Sharon Lym (Trinidad & Tobago Business Guardian, 5 June, 2003)
- "A Reverence for Orchids" (Trinidad & Tobago Express, 12 February, 2009) Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Trinidad & Tobago Birding - Suggested Reading List
- "IMA launches wetlands book" by Anne Hilton (Trinidad & Tobago Newsday, March 1, 2010)
- "The story of Asa Wright" by Kimberly Castillo (Trinidad & Tobago Express, 6 March, 2010)
- "A story of hope and despair" by Anne Hilton (Trinidad & Tobago Newsday, January 4, 2010)