Sir Ronald Sanders, a former Caribbean diplomat, writes in the Huntington News that the BBC’s availability on FM 24 hours a day in Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, is good for the BBC and for audiences in Caribbean countries who want to hear comprehensive world news as well as a variety of well produced programmes on a wide range of issues.
Sir Ronald argues that what the BBC is doing should have been done by the Caribbean itself a long time ago. He says it is almost incomprehensible that the 15-nations of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) are developing a Single Market, and are engaged in myriad common and joint activities, yet they have no single tool for informing and educating the Caribbean people.
Having started in the early 1970s – three decades ago – one would have expected by now that the CBU would have developed a radio station that produced and delivered programmes simultaneously throughout the region as the BBC is now doing, says Sir Ronald.
