GIS Media Training for Communities

Contact: John Emmanuel

Tuesday, October 16, 2001 – Following the successful launch of its National Television Network (NTN) division, the Government Information Service (GIS) is getting ready to go into communities across Saint Lucia to equip ordinary citizens with the necessary media skills to get their various messages across to a national audience.

Director of Information Services, Embert Charles, announced today that GIS is organizing a series of community-based workshops which will provide a forum for discussing major issues related to the role of the media in society and offer training in writing, research techniques, and how to produce radio and television features. The series will get going before the end of the year.

“We’ll be working with established groups such as the mothers and fathers groups, youth and sports councils and other active community cultural groups. We’ll be contacting them, keeping in mind that most of them may have persons responsible for dissemination of information like public relations officers,” explained Charles.

He added: “However, we want to go beyond that.  We want to go to people who have an interest in creative outputs and perhaps identify, as a start, a list of issues in the community that they want to highlight and afterwards we at NTN and the GIS will give them the appropriate options in terms of how they will tell those stories.”

NTN’s role is to increase opportunities for Saint Lucians to see more of themselves and their various experiences on television as a rich alternative to the largely American diet of programmes seen on the majority of television channels available locally.

The staff of GIS and outside media personnel will serve as resource persons at the workshops.

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