PMC’s Jamaica Program Featured in The Drum Beat
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Outta Road (“What’s Happening out in the Streets”) is featured in this months edition of The Drum Beat.
Articles by Category for ‘Caribbean’
PMC’s Alleyne Regis one of Six Eco-Warriors From Around the World
Sunday, December 27th, 2009Congratulations to Alleyne Regis for being named an eco-warrior by Razoo.
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Alleyne Regis uses a unique method to raise awareness of environmental and social issues in the Caribbean: radio soap operas. For three years, Regis produced a radio show for residents of the island of St. Lucia called Changing Tides, a serial drama that used gripping plotlines to spotlight issues like AIDS and the South Pacific ecosystem. The show, which was sponsored by a conservation group called RARE, had more than 200,000 listeners, and they paid attention to the social messages: 32 percent said that they had stopped littering because of what they’d learned on the program. Now, Regis is building up an even bigger audience: he’s working with the nonprofit group Population Media Center (http://www.razoo.com/story/Population-Media-Center) on a new socially-conscious radio program that airs in nine Caribbean countries. Who knew soap operas could be such a good influence?
For full article, visit:
http://www.razoo.com/articles/Six_Eco-Warriors
