Department of Youth, Sports and Culture-Culture division reviews strategic plans |14 March 2008

During the session, which took place at the Kreol Institute, the officials also mentioned the proposed autonomy status for the institute.

The meeting was chaired by the principal secretary for Youth, Sports and Culture, Denis Rose, who highlighted the importance of holding such meetings with the respective heads of sections as this, he said, guarantees that there are fewer occurrences of the different sections duplicating each others’ work when carrying out their respective duties.

Mr Rose added that the meetings were the perfect opportunity for the heads to present their definite plans as well as to take steps to find the funding necessary for implementation.

The session lasted the whole day and saw the participation of not only the different heads in the division but also representatives from other sectors such as community development and sports.

This was also a chance for all the workers to gain input from the Division of Culture’s other partners in order for them to produce better work at the end of the day.

During the discussions, important issues pertaining to the department as well as new projects such as the digitization of the data currently accommodated at the National Archives were brought forward.

One of the participants, Raymonde Onezime, who is the director general for Culture said that the department found the meetings to be a very good way through which to improve the programmes of the division as well to let its partners provide their own input which in turn will also improve the quality of programmes put forward.

Mr Rose said the presence of the other partners from different sections at the meeting fell in with its new approach of collaborating with different parties in order to bring local culture to the masses.