Radio remains one of the best mediums for news and information for a number of reasons and in situations such as natural disasters and political upheavals, the role of Communications Fiji Limited is well known amongst people who have grown with radio.
As we celebrate World Radio Day, Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Professor Biman Prasad has also congratulated Communications Fiji Limited, fijivillage News and its News Director Vijay Narayan for standing up to the bullies and all the attempts to silence independent media organisations.
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He says this Government wants to, no matter who is in government in the future, leave a culture where there is freedom of information and journalists can hold leaders and government to account so that it would become a way of life in a democracy.
Professor Prasad says no one should try and muzzle the media.
The Acting Prime Minister has also congratulated CFL for it’s 40 years of service to the country this year.
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As this year’s World Radio Day theme is ‘Radio and Climate Change’, Professor Prasad says radio, climate change and climate action go together because radio, provides real-time news updates and breaking news, especially when we now are experiencing the frequency, the intensity of natural disasters as a result of global climate change.
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He adds for small island countries like Fiji, where the frequency of natural disasters is much higher compared to those in bigger countries, real-time information to people, can only come through radio at a much lower cost and in a much more efficient and much more trustful and credible way than perhaps when it comes through other mediums or other forms of information that might be available.
