Radio CARICOM to promote regional connectivity
Monday, July 5, 2004
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Radio CARICOM was due to
be officially launched at the meeting of heads of government in Grenada on
Sunday It will be established in all member
states over a short period of time with Barbados, Belize, Grenada, and St.
Lucia, regarded as “pilot states” in the project, coming online in 2004. Radio
CARICOM will eventually become a common source of information on the Caribbean
Community for all member states, and available in all member states.
Radio CARICOM: the Voice of the Caribbean
Community, the official name of the service, is owned by the Community, and
managed by the Secretariat of the Community. It is expected to bring the
Caribbean to increasingly large percentages of the population in the member
states by internet protocol and FM radio.
Radio CARICOM is a radio service rather than
a radio station in the traditional sense, due to its being based on internet
protocols which allow mobile control by the system administrator regardless of
his physical location.
Radio CARICOM will not compete with, nor
duplicate, other broadcast services in the CARICOM region. Rather, as the
niche for current and authoritative information on the Caribbean Community;
its development, culture, achievements, challenges and lifestyles, it will
complement the current content of broadcasting services and the traditional
channels of public information on the Caribbean Community and its Secretariat.
An important and innovative aspect of the region’s connectivity agenda, Radio
CARICOM may well be enhanced in the near term, as part of a wider information
and communication network which takes advantage of anticipated affordable
access to satellite networks as part of initiatives to transform the Community
into a truly knowledge-based society encompassing e-commence and e-government.
Radio CARICOM will challenge resistance to
positive change, facilitate debate and complement mainstream media
broadcasting. With suitable programming, the people of the region should be
better informed on the full implementation of the CSME and the benefits
anticipated.
The Deputy Secretary-General is in overall
charge of the project, while coordination is sited within the Information and
Communication Division of the Secretariat, with an Adviser responsible for
oversight and development of the project.
Programmes will be available on demand on the Radio CARICOM website
www.radiocaricom.org
and held for periods ranging from one to four weeks, depending on the topic
and its relevance or interest to the community.
Using a test and fix approach, 2004 will be
a period of testing and refinement of the system.
Radio CARICOM frequencies are as follows:
Barbados: 100.7 FM
Belize: 102.5 FM
Grenada: 102.5 FM
St. Lucia: 102.5 FM Collaborating
broadcast services, in each country are, Barbados: CBC Radio, Belize: Love FM,
Grenada: WEE FM, St. Lucia: Radio St. Lucia.
As a regional non-commercial, public service
radio entity, Radio CARICOM welcomes offers of materials exchange, partnership
and collaboration from artistes, musicians, and radio broadcast services in
the Caribbean and beyond.
For queries about, or offers to contribute
to, Radio CARICOM, please contact Mr. Carlton James
cjames@caricom.org, or
carltonajames@yahoo.com or visit
the Radio CARICOM website,
www.radiocaricom.org
Back...
Most popular
articles: viewed, printed and e-mailed
Printable
version
| 
