Guardian Me­dia’s weath­er an­chor Kalain Ho­sein walked away with five awards at the Caribbean Broad­cast­ing Union’s 2022 Caribbean Me­dia Awards in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da yes­ter­day.

Lead News­gath­er­ing Ed­i­tor and CNC3 news an­chor Ryan Ba­choo al­so copped an award at the cer­e­mo­ny.

Kalain, who is most­ly known for his pre­sen­ta­tion of the weath­er fore­cast dur­ing the CNC3 7 pm news­cast, was award­ed for his news re­ports on the print, tele­vi­sion and dig­i­tal plat­forms.

He won the award for Best Cli­mate Change News Items in both the print and dig­i­tal cat­e­gories; Best Cov­er­age of the COVID-19 Pan­dem­ic in the print cat­e­go­ry; Best Cli­mate Change Doc­u­men­tary in the tele­vi­sion cat­e­go­ry; and Best Cov­er­age of Dis­as­ter Risk Re­duc­tion in the dig­i­tal cat­e­go­ry.

Ba­choo won the Best Doc­u­men­tary Pro­gramme in the tele­vi­sion cat­e­go­ry.

The CBU’s awards are held an­nu­al­ly to cel­e­brate the best of con­tent cre­at­ed by me­dia hous­es in the Dutch, Eng­lish, French and Span­ish Caribbean.

Orig­i­nal­ly, the Caribbean Broad­cast­ing Awards was open on­ly to ra­dio and tele­vi­sion con­tent be­fore it was broad­ened to be­come the Caribbean Me­dia Awards to re­flect the ex­pan­sion of the CBU’s mem­ber­ship to in­clude dig­i­tal and print con­tent cre­ators.

Jour­nal­ists, me­dia prac­ti­tion­ers and con­tent cre­ators were in­vit­ed to sub­mit pieces from var­i­ous plat­forms be­tween Jan­u­ary 1 and De­cem­ber 31, 2022, with April 2023 be­ing the dead­line for sub­mis­sion.