Press Release: Small Islands Voice Display

The UNESCO Small Islands Voice National Coordinating Committee invites everyone to view its Heritage Sites and Monuments display, which is being exhibited in the Charles A. Halbert Public Library.

The UNESCO Small Islands Voice started in early 2002 from St. Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean, from Seychelles in the Indian Ocean and from Palau in the Pacific. The project is about people in small islands voicing their views on environment and development issues and encouraging them to get involved in these issues.

Small Islands Voice seeks to strengthen local, regional and inter-regional communication by:

• Obtaining islanders views through meetings, opinion surveys, talk shows and other activities
• Encouraging young islanders to discuss environment and development issues among themselves using new technologies
• Debating these views regionally and globally through Internet-based discussions
• Identifying key issues for action at the local and global levels so that the small islands have a voice in combating environmental degradation and poverty.

The National Coordinating Committee has produced a display board to present aspects of environment and development issues for public information and feedback. The present display, which was first exhibited in the Square during Emancipation Commemoration activities, brings together aspects of our heritage sites and monuments as well as our black leaders. It can be found upstairs in the Reading Room of the Charles A. Halbert Public Library during normal working hours.

All are invited to come along and submit their views and suggestions as well as try to answer the questions posed. There will be some small prizes for the best answers and comments.

Later in the year other themes will be displayed in different parts of the Federation for public information and feedback.

Source: Press release from UNESCO Small Islands Voice Coordinating Committee, 28th August, 2002.