The Gleaner's Daraine Luton (left), Keisha Hill and Glenroy Sinclair leave the podium after receiving their certificates of commendation during the fourth biennial Excellence in Media lecture forum and the sixth staging Jamaica Broilers' Fair Play awards ceremony yesterday at the Hilton hotel in New Kingston. Luton, Hill and Sinclair broke the story about the gang-rape of a schoolgirl in a van. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

The Gleaner was among several media houses yesterday which won awards at the sixth annual Jamaica Broilers Group Fair Play presentation at the Hilton Kingston hotel in St. Andrew.

The seven-month-old series, Tyrone's Watch, written by Enterprise Reporter Tyrone Reid and published in The Gleaner every Tuesday, took a runner-up prize. It was commended by chief judge Alma Mock-Yen as an enterprising act of public service journalism.

The top award went to CVM TV in the electronic media category for a documentary series, 'Hidden Scars - a Series on Child Abuse'. The team received $150,000 in prize money and a trophy.

The top award for print went to The Sunday Herald's Durant Pate for his series on the controversial Cuban eye care programme entitled 'Complaints of Complications: Cuban Eye Cases'. The series was hailed for insight and research and earned Mr. Pate $150,000 and a trophy.

The Gleaner also received two certificates of commendation for excellence in journalism: Andrea Downer for her insightful series of a murderer's tale in 'The Clement Beckford Story'; and the investigative team of Daraine Luton, Keisha Hill and Glenroy Sinclair.

The team broke the disheartening tale of a teenage girl who was molested by three boys who videotaped the incident in the presence of a church deacon. The stories led to the arrest of the deacon and three of the schoolboys and triggered widespread public outcry and retabling of important child protection legislation.