Annual C.B.U. Awards Recognizes Regional Media Workers

As we said, the Caribbean Media Awards Ceremony is set to take place tonight in Placencia. The event will be aired live on Channel Five. Media workers will be recognized in fifty-five categories. More than four hundred submissions from across the Caribbean were made for this years’ awards competition. Great Belize Productions has been nominated in various categories. We spoke with Sonia Gill, the Secretary General of C.B.U., ahead of tonight’s event.

 

Sonia Gill, Secretary General, C.B.U.

“What we are going to be celebrating is really just a sampling of the content that regional people are able to enjoy because our regional professionals trained locally, most of them, are able to present about the lives, livelihoods and issues that really affect us. In addition, you are going to see a lot of content in different formats, not just news stories, digital content, podcasts, all kinds of creative celebrations of social media content that are speaking to us. We have a wide range of content. It is not just what is in the news cast or in front of the newspapers. But it is drama. It is comedy. It is focused on entertainment and very much it is about the actual people. So, there are several categories that look at those who are doing the directing, producing, in audio engineering for television or radio or even a social media creator. We wanted to organize the material and people that make up our media sector, which is critical in the Caribbean region.”