Entertainers hoping to earn money from festival
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Cautiously optimistic.
That’s the feeling of bandleaders and players in the entertainment industry following the recent news that there are plans for a new-look Crop Over Festival in 2021.
President of the Entertainers Association of Barbados (EAB), Rudy Maloney told
Barbados TODAY while members were hoping for an opportunity to earn some money during Crop Over, they now had to wait until a final determination was made regarding how it will be held.
He said there were still many questions up in the air.
On Wednesday, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for Culture, John King revealed that due to the COVID-19 pandemic significant adjustments would be made to this year’s festival.
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Come next month new protocols will be in place for vaccinated visitors to Barbados, including a shorter quarantine.
However, as the country prepares to welcome a larger number of tourists, a special committee has been established to monitor those protocols and to ensure security at quarantine facilities is up to scratch.
Revealing that the new protocols would take effect from May 8, Prime Minister Mia Mottley explained that Barbados could no longer afford to keep the tourism sector partially closed as it accounted for 45 per cent of all economic activity.
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Vaccinated visitors will be welcome to Barbados under a new public health protocol from May 8.
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said yesterday the decision was one backed by science, and based on a combination of the country’s decreasing positivity rate of COVID-19, continuation of the National Vaccine Programme, and its improved capacity to do more testing if required.
In a nationally televised address, she said it was important the country got its economic engines turning again, and there was no better place to start than with its biggest income earner, tourism.
“That thing that sustains a large part, 45 per of our economic activity, is tourism. That cannot remain shut down and closed, particularly because since the beginning of this year there has been a large number of persons in our traditional source markets who have been vaccinated, and who have expressed a determination to travel later in this year,” Mottley said.
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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Principals are working with the Ministry of Education to ensure all COVID-19 protocols are in place when face-to-face classes resume later this month.
President of the Barbados Association of Principals of Public Secondary Schools, Stephen Jackman, told the DAILY NATION yesterday that the ministry had taken note of their suggestions on the best way forward.
“All I can say is that we are continuing to work with the ministry to have schools ready for April 19 and 20 reopenings. I can say that the principals have had consultations with the ministry and they listened to the things we had to say,” he said briefly.