#JAMAICA PRIME MINISTER PJ PATTERSON DRIVERS#

Hickling Gordon uses the colonial histories of the two countries to draw parallels between the development of their respective broadcast industries and their transformation from propaganda tools for the colonial and post-colonial states to a potential force for the promotion of cultural empowerment and the development and growth of a viable creative economy. FILE PHOTO: State of Tourism Industry Conference (SOTIC) in the Bahamas on October 1-5, 2018. Hickling Gordon advocates for the development of clear and deliberate geostrategy for increased cultural and creative trade between Jamaica and Ghana as well as the Caribbean and Africa.ДrВ Hickling Gordon describes her book as representing вЂњthe first critical examination and comparison of cultural and creative industries (CCI) and economic concepts in the Caribbean and AfricaвЂ¦an original contribution to the development of strategies that influence processes, structures, and policies related to the cultural economy concept and those required to improve audiovisual industriesвЂќ in the Global South. She also proposes and demonstrates the application of a mode crafted specifically for the development of cultural economy policy for countries of the Global South. It presents the philosophical, ideological, economic, changes and their impact on governance and the operational transformation of the television sectors of Jamaica and Ghana. The book, released in November 2020, is Dr Hickling GordonвЂ™s first published work. It addresses the perennial issue of the Cultural Economy which has never been as significant and dominant globally as it is today.вЂќ He said вЂњThis book could not have been more timely and relevant to our situation today. Patterson lauded the book as вЂњtimelyвЂќ and expressed his delight in including the body of work in the Africa-Caribbean Centre for Advocacy named in his honour. The Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy, launched in June 2020, is the brainchild of former PM PJ Patterson-known for his commitment to regionalism and improving CaribbeanвЂ™s ties with Africa. The book, written by communication and culture-in-development strategist turned author, Dr Deborah Hickling Gordon, examines the factors influencing the transformation of the television industries in Jamaica and Ghana as a sector of broader cultural economies. вЂCultural Economy and Television in Jamaica and Ghana вЂ™В was added to the research archives of former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Percival James PattersonвЂ™s Africa-Caribbean Centre for Advocacy on Wednesday, May 19 during a formal handover at its University of the West IndiesвЂ™ Mona Campus offices. The book will be included in the archives of PattersonвЂ™s Africa-Caribbean Centre for Advocacy.

#JAMAICA PRIME MINISTER PJ PATTERSON DRIVERS#

Hickling GordonвЂ™s book as he believes the cultural and creative industries are key drivers for economic growth in the Caribbean.

Patterson emphasised the timeliness of Dr. Deborah Hickling GordonвЂ™s book, вЂCultural Economy and Television in Jamaica and Ghana: #decolonization2point0вЂ™ at the official handover ceremony held on May 19, 2021. Book prompts former Jamaican PMвЂ™s take on contemporary decolonisation as an approach to developing cultural economies in the Global South Former Prime Minister of Jamaica PJ Patterson (right) takes a look at Dr.

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