Georgetown: The Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence announced the appointment of Dr Seeta Shah Roath as the head of its Guyana Country Nominating Committee.
Dr Roath replaces Dr David Singh, who held the post for two years.
Dr Roath is an educator, academic and journalist. She designed and presently runs the Guyana Learning Channel, launched in April 2011. This is a countrywide 24-hour educational television initiative in Guyana that, for the first time, reaches hinterland communities.
She has worked at the University of Guyana as media producer and lecturer in broadcast journalism, and tutor in development support communication and research principles in the 80s and 90s. Working extensively in rural communities of Guyana, she was the Head of the National Development Support Communications System and the Communications Coordinator for the largest gold mine in South America, Omai Gold Mines Limited.
As an international journalist, Dr Shah Roath produced full country reports for the Washington Times from over 16 Caribbean and Central American countries including Panama, Suriname, Guyana, Nevis, Bonaire, Curacao, Dominica, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago. She has also contributed to the Washington Diplomat and the Billings Examiner.
The Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence is a nine-year-old programme which seeks out and rewards persons throughout the English-speaking Caribbean in the fields of science, art, and public service.
Four Guyanese nationals have been named laureates. Prof David Dabydeen was awarded in Arts & Letters and Ms Annette Arjoon in Public & Civic Contributions, in 2008, Mr Sydney Allicock was awarded in Public & Civic Contributions in 2010, and Mr George Simon was awarded in Arts & Letters in 2012.
The Country Nominating Committee’s job is to seek out and select the best candidates for nomination for Awards. Details of the awards and profiles of the laureates can be found at www.ansacaribbeanawards.com, on Facebook, or on YouTube.
The other members of the Guyana nominating committee are: Dr David Singh; Mr Al Creighton; Dr Marlene Cox; Mr Alim Hosein; Mr Brynmor Pollard SC, CCH; Rev Dr Malcolm Rodriguez; Dr Ulric O’D Trotz; and Ms Josephine Whitehead, AA.
The Caribbean Awards for Excellence laureates for 2014 will be announced in the next few weeks.
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