THE MARIA Moors Cabot awards, in their 62nd year, are bestowed annually by Columbia University for distinguished service to journalism. Mr. Lloyd Williams, Senior Associate Editor of The Gleaner, was honoured for investigative reporting of the drug trade and crime.
This was the third time that The Gleaner has been honoured with a Cabot award. In 1954 the then Managing Director S.G. Fletcher was cited for making The Gleaner the outstanding exponent of Inter American relationships; and in 1970 the Gleaner was cited by the Cabot committee for fearless reporting and its high standard of journalism.
Three other journalists were also honoured with Cabot gold medals at the Columbia ceremony. They were Eloy Aguilar, Mexico Bureau chief of the Associated Press; Paul Knox, International Affairs reporter of Canada's Globe and Mail; and Ricardo Uceda Perez, chief of the investigative unit of El Comercio in Peru. A special citation was given to Francisco Santos, columnist for El Tiempo, Colombia.
