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Radio Bluefields - Jamaica

Country

Jamaica

Regions

Global, Caribbean

Programme Summary

Radio Bluefields is a community-based radio (96.9 FM) that transmits to a cluster of communities along the south-western coast of Jamaica. This area is home to approximately 7,000 people

Communication Strategies

Programming includes music, entertainment, information about community leaders, current affairs, environmental issues, historical facts and radio counseling.

Development Issues

Political development, Environment, Education, Rights.

Key Points

Participation and feedback of listeners has contributed to the process of the building and expansion of the station. The mission statement of Radio Bluefields includes: Creating Solutions to Community Problems; Improving the quality of the Community through Education that impacts Transformation; Consensus Building for Community Action; Providing Training, Production and Economic Benefits to the Community; Shaping the Community and Environment; and, Solving Community Problems through Community Networking.

Partners

Set up with assistance from the UNESCO International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), particularly in the area of the provision of technical infrastructure and the training of staff.

Contact

UNESCO

Programme for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace

1, rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15 France

Phone: 33.1.45.68.42.01 Fax: 33.1.45.68.55.84

s.coudray@unesco.org

UNESCO website


Set up with assistance from the UNESCO International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), particularly in the

Source

Document provided by Jocelyne Josiah to the Communication Initiative in 2000.


Placed on the Communication Initiative site June 28 2001
Last Updated June 28 2001


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