The As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean Me­dia Work­ers has joined the re­gion in mourn­ing the death of Jones P. Madeira.

In a state­ment on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, ACM hailed Madeira's decades of ser­vice to the Caribbean me­dia.

They sin­gled out his con­tri­bu­tion dur­ing the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup as the voice that re­vealed it to the na­tion and the world.

ACM said, "Dur­ing those ter­ri­ble days un­til the Au­gust 1st sur­ren­der, he served as a voice of in­for­ma­tion and calm via mea­sured broad­casts while al­so fa­cil­i­tat­ing me­di­at­ed con­ver­sa­tions be­tween the in­sur­gents and the se­cu­ri­ty forces."

The as­so­ci­a­tion al­so paid trib­ute to Madeira, who they say served as a men­tor to a gen­er­a­tion of Caribbean jour­nal­ists.

Madeira died on Fri­day at 3:33pm at the age of 80. His fam­i­ly said he was ail­ing for some time.