CULTURAL stakeholders have welcomed Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s plan to establish a permanent Carifesta (Caribbean Festival of Arts) House to preserve Caribbean culture for future generations.

At the close of Carifesta, the region’s premier cultural extravaganza, on August 31, Mottley announced plans to establish the facility at the site of the Carifesta Village and Grand Market at Waterford, St Michael.

She also proposed the introduction of a website to enable vendors registered at the Grand Market to sell their products for a year, free of charge. This initiative will be sponsored by the Barbados government.