Award-win­ning jour­nal­ist Jai Paras­ram is re­turn­ing to Trinidad in Sep­tem­ber to teach a spe­cial course in Sto­ry­telling for Tele­vi­sion, aimed at both the be­gin­ner and re­porters al­ready work­ing in tele­vi­sion who need to strength­en their sto­ry­telling skills. Paras­ram's Toron­to-based Jy­oti Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Me­dia Con­sul­tants is col­lab­o­rat­ing with Ad As­so­ciates of Mon­trose Ch­agua­nas to con­duct the train­ing. Class­es are be­ing held at the Ad As­so­ciates head­quar­ters in Mon­trose. Paras­ram said this pi­lot project is not in­tend­ed to du­pli­cate or re­place sim­i­lar train­ing cur­rent­ly be­ing of­fered by Cost­tatt and the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies.

"Those ac­cred­it­ed in­sti­tu­tions have a def­i­nite role to play in me­dia train­ing and what we are do­ing will com­ple­ment their ef­forts," Paras­ram said. "What we are do­ing is a short, high­ly spe­cialised, clear­ly fo­cused, in­ten­sive course." The course, which is the first of its kind in Trinidad & To­ba­go, is be­ing of­fered over a one-month pe­ri­od with par­tic­i­pants work­ing in groups. A max­i­mum of 16 peo­ple will be en­rolled in the course to al­low one-to-one in­ter­ac­tion. The course be­gins on Sep­tem­ber 3. For fur­ther en­quires and en­rol­ment forms con­tact: 310-3818 or e-mail Paras­ram at jparas­ram@hot­mail.com.