Managing Director of WE FM 99.9, Julius Williams, has thanked listeners for their continued support of the community radio station while encouraging greater public participation and a renewed focus on life’s priorities as the new year approaches.
Williams delivered his annual end-of-year message on Sunday, December 28, during the Issue At Hand programme, extending Christmas and New Year greetings to listeners across all platforms, including free-to-air, online and social media.
“My mission here is to thank all of the WE FM listeners online, free air, and whoever, however, whatever media platform you’re able to access the station on,” Williams said, noting that the message was being delivered on behalf of the entire WE FM team, including programme moderators and staff.
He invited listeners to play a more active role in shaping the station’s programming, signalling plans to create more open forums where members of the public can share honest feedback. Williams said such engagement would help WE FM better serve a wider cross-section of the listening audience and strengthen its programmes.
Looking ahead to the coming year, Williams reflected on what he described as an increasingly chaotic and unpredictable global and political environment. Against that backdrop, he urged listeners to plan their futures with purpose and discipline.
He stressed the importance of distinguishing between needs and wants, encouraging people to remain focused on essentials such as employment and food security in order to achieve longer-term goals. “If we stay focused on the things that we need, then we would accomplish the things that we want,” he said.
Julius Williams is the visionary founder of WE FM 99.9, one of St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ pioneering private radio stations. The community station went on air in 1997, just months after broadcast licences were first extended to private operators. WE FM broadcasts 24 hours a day on 99.9 FM, with programming that blends entertainment, news, information and national development issues.
From its studios at Windy Point, Old Fort, Lower Questelles, and its transmission site at Mount St. Andrew, WE FM covers all of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and reaches significant portions of Barbados, Grenada and St. Lucia. The station also streams globally via its online platform, launched in 2004.
As WE FM looks toward a new year, Williams said the station remains committed to growth, innovation and deeper engagement with its audience, guided by the same community-focused vision that has defined it for more than two decades.
