For several days the idea was going through my head. It would be my first professional journalistic work. I had been charged to make an interview. It was a huge commitment. I spent whole days researching.

The director of Radio Caribe, in the special municipality of the Isle of Youth is a smart and cheerful woman and with an impressive voice. Doris Cairo welcomes those who come to her, with her infectious smile, her will for living and her love for the radio makes her an indispensable person. For this reason the Portal of the Cuban Radio visited The Isle of Youth ( popularly known as Treasure Island)  to talk with this Villa Clara woman who became an Isle of Youth settler.

MS: Where is Doris Cairo from? How did you get to know the Isle of Youth?

DC: I was born in the province of Villa Clara in a very small town called Sierra Morena, in the municipality of Corralillo, in the north region of Villa Clara, it was a beautiful land, the land of painter Romañach and also where Dora Alonso wrote her famous novel Furia Blanca.

Cesar Arredondo, the most awarded professional of the National Radio Festivals, shares his experiences in the book De Becerra a la Rampa. Memorias de un locutor, that was launched on Friday in the Alejo Carpentier reading room in Morro- Cabaña military complex.

Once I heard it said that Cesar Arredondo, the notable professional of Radio Rebelde station, with his voice and peculiar style, had the power to shock, make reflect, calm and captivate the listener like a friend who knows the precise words to seduce with his conversation.

Yumie Rodriguez was born in the city of Santa Clara, located in the central province of Villa Clara, on September 25, 1973, from two outstanding figures of radio in Villa Clara and the country. Her father, Rolando Rodriguez Frenes, was the director of radio in the province for over 20 years, and her mother, Zady Flor, is an excellent announcer, whose voice identified the CMHW provincial radio station for many years and who is presently working at the island’s international radio station, Radio Habana Cuba.

By Yainier Sanchez Gonzalez, First Year Journalism student   Translated by Daysi Olano Fernandez

Orlando Castellanos was a self taught person; he used to visit a local radio station at eight years old. Later, he was an excellent professional of the media. This devotion for the media do not leave him to continue superior studies but it did not matter. Orlando Castellanos Molina makes its own phrase ‘the practice is the mother of knowledge. Since he was a child he learned and improved the quality in his work, the same in a local or national radio station, in Cuba or abroad.