Two Dominicans, 24-year -old Lynworth Mitchell from Portsmouth and 25-year-old Narlie Betrand from Laudat, have returned home from a weekend workshop on delivering top quality TV programming on HIV held in Antigua.
The workshop was sponsored by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership (CBMP) on HIV/AIDS and was geared towards building the capacity of 30 young television producers from 16 countries to deliver such programming.
At the first 2-day workshop, which was held at the Grand Royal Antiguan Hotel, ten young producers from Antigua, Barbuda, Dominica and Montserrat were trained to produce programmes on priority issues in HIV prevention including multiple concurrent partnerships, low levels of condom use, gender-based violence, masculinities and homophobia.
UNESCO’s vision for these workshops is to build the capacity of 30 young television producers from 16 countries to produce 30 high quality TV documentaries which could be used for programme exchange with other broadcasters in the world through worldwide networks which will operate from UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
At the opening ceremony, CBMP Executive Director Dr. Allyson Leacock lauded UNESCO for its continued efforts to effectively respond to HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean region and its programme goals that are perfectly aligned with CBMP’s core activities.
“Informed and highly trained media professionals are an essential element in the Caribbean response to HIV and AIDS. We are therefore very pleased that UNESCO has once again demonstrated its commitment to the Caribbean response by expanding their partnership with the CBMP. These planned workshops, along with the CBMP/UNESCO Interactive training Tool which was launched in 2009, are effective strategies in ensuring that the region’s TV producers are equipped with the necessary tools to effect behaviour change with excellent programming as is currently done by CBMP’s 112 stations in 24 countries throughout the region ”, Dr. Leacock stated.
She also noted that at the end of this phase of the CBMP/UNESCO partnership, “the region will have a group of young TV producers who are capable of producing accurate, quality materials to complement the body of HIV work currently being produced in the region”.
Follow-up workshops are scheduled for St. Maarten and Jamaica.
producers! lol big joke lol
if you listen to dbs on saturday mornings narlie bertrand has a programme DA’s hottest spot
good promo for Dominica
While it is good that they are considering all these things, doesn’t anyone stop for a minute to consider that the acceptance of the morally unsound is a key factor in the spread of HIV?
Get off your high horse of ignorance. Your expressed self righteousness doesn’t help the fight against HIV & AIDS. Its the continuous prevention education and programs to curb the spread & cut down on new infections that work.
Yeaaaa go Lyni…this is such awesome news
Great! Are the two chosen into media, if not do they have any interest. How will their training and skills be utilized locally. Is GIS going to utilize them together with some of our more creative minds like Steve Hyacinth etc. to bring the messages on HIV to Dominicans throughout the island.
It’s great to attend workshops and UNESCO has a plan but question is how do we as a country capitalize on these new skills and training.
did u not read that they are film producers? does that mean that they have to be into media
that girl don’t know what she is doing