Barbadians can expect a very different
Crop Over festival than the one they’ve come to expect, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office for Culture John King said Wednesday.
He told journalists that amid talks on plans to stage
Crop Over this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Barbadians must be warned that there will be significant adjustments to key features of the mid-year festival that coincides with emancipation celebrations.
By month-end, the culture ministry is to issue a statement on the new-look
Crop Over that will be in keeping with the COVID-19 protocols, he said.
“I will be able to give a full statement on what it’s going to look like, how it is going to be done and all of that. But we are really looking at extending the season of emancipation,” said King. “There will be events and different things but not in the form that people are accustomed to.”
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Government is expected to showcase a new look Crop Over this year, and details on the rollout should be publicised by the end of this month.
That is according to Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for Culture John King. He was speaking to the media at the end of a presentation by fellow entertainer Desmond “Fowl” Weekes at Sky Mall, St Michael this morning.
“We know the vaccines do not actually stop people from getting COVID so we have to be clear on that. Crop Over as people envisioned it in the past with all the things going on cannot be in the same way that we envisioned it,” he explained to the media.
Lights, camera, action in The City
Article by March 11, 2021
Barbados is the scene of a major television series shoot for popular film and tv streaming service
Netflix.
The team in the month-long shoot which started last week by Crucial Productions/Narrow Isle Productions, LLC will be busy on the set at several locations in The City of Bridgetown between today and Friday.
The television project, which is being undertaken with the backing of the Prime Minister’s Office, will continue filming Thursday along Wharf Road and Shepherd Street.
On Friday, the production team will shoot in the areas of Cavans Lane, Pierhead Lane and the Wharf.