BGIS presented with CBU awards

The Barbados Government Information Service has received its Caribbean Broadcasting Union Media Awards after winning in three categories at the recently held CBU Caribbean Media Awards in Trinidad and Tobago.

They were presented by CBU Secretary General, Sonia Gill, at the CBU Secretariat in Barbados.

The BGIS won in the categories: Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic with “COVID Stories 246 – Not the Common Cold”, Best Public Service Spot with “COVID-19 Contact Types Explained”, and Digital Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic with “COVID-19 Story: the Mathematics of a Virus”.

Winners in the category Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic were Shamkoe Pilé, Sharon Austin-Gill-Moore, Joel Bowen, Carl Allman, and Ian Inniss. The recipient of the Award for Digital Coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic was Esther Jones, while Paula Harper-Grant and Mikul Elcock won in the Best Public Service Spot.

Speaking during the brief presentation ceremony, Acting Chief Information Officer, Ian Inniss, noted although the BGIS was not present at the first in-person awards ceremony coming out of the pandemic, it was a pleasure to have learnt they were winners in three categories.

Meanwhile Secretary General Gill pointed out the Caribbean Media Awards was approaching three decades of service to the region, and the CBU, which was established in 1970, was always about development of the region through media practice and the development of media practitioners.

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