Pro­duc­er

As the cur­tains come down on Car­ifes­ta XV, Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley wants its lega­cy to live on, and she’s will­ing to put her mon­ey where her mouth is.

At the clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny for the 10-day fes­ti­val at the Richard Stoute Am­phithe­atre, Mot­t­ley an­nounced a se­ries of short- and long-term ini­tia­tives aimed at pre­serv­ing Caribbean cul­ture and art for fu­ture gen­er­a­tions. Among them, the es­tab­lish­ment of a per­ma­nent Car­ifes­ta House where the Car­ifes­ta Vil­lage and Grand Mar­ket cur­rent­ly sit at Wa­ter­ford, St. Michael, and a web­site to al­low ven­dors reg­is­tered at the Grand Mar­ket to sell their prod­ucts on­line for a year for free—and spon­sored by the Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment.