Seventh-day Adventist-run Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is preparing to broadcast radio programming to the Caribbean after receiving a radio license for a student-run station.

"We will pull ourselves together and set the pace for the highest caliber of programming in radio," said Herbert Thompson, president of Northern Caribbean University (NCU).

Thompson said the station provides a way to impact the community as well as a training tool for university students.

"We are going to be operating as a regular station with news, advertisement and programming," Thompson said.

NCU received the license earlier in March, eight years after first applying to the government.