10 Benefits of Community Radio for the Caribbean :

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“Radio for the People and by the People” 

  • Builds local identity, character  and culture through a diversity of programmes and content
  • Promotes community access to Caribbean and local community content
  • Focuses on specific community issues  concerns and events
  • Highlights  various interest groups and community personalities
  • Shares local   news  by giving voice to the voiceless
  • Includes minority and marginalized community members
  • Facilitates mastery of radio equipment  and basic broadcasting techniques
  • Promotes democratic process, social change, development, civil society and good governance
  • Acts  as a form of public-service broadcasting  independent of government and  party politic
  • Relies on the community resources it serves rather than the whole nation

 

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