St. Kitts and Nevis represented at OAS seminar on culture

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 12TH 2012 (CUOPM) – St. Kitts and Nevis is being represented at an Organization of American States (OAS) seminar given by Argentina on the development of cultural information systems for Caribbean countries.

Marlene Phillips-Lee of the Department of Culture is attending the seminar which ends this weekend in Washington DC.

An OAS statement said the course was aimed at raising awareness about Argentina’s experience in the development of an integrated system of cultural information of a national and federal range.

It was designed as a management tool for cultural policy and as a service intended to aid the democratization of content diffusion in this area.

The course is being given by experts from the Cultural Information System of Argentina (SinCa) and includes the participation of civil service professionals working within the framework of the highest national authority responsible for cultural management from Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. .Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.