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Dr Jo-anne Tull, aca­d­e­m­ic co­or­di­na­tor and lec­tur­er for the post­grad­u­ate pro­grammes in Arts, Cul­ture and En­ter­prise Man­age­ment, and Car­ni­val Stud­ies at UWI St Au­gus­tine, is sup­port­ing calls to reg­u­late the en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try through leg­is­la­tion.

In a me­dia re­lease on Mon­day, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) said it wants to con­tin­ue ne­go­ti­a­tions with the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Of­fice to com­plete draft­ing and pass­ing spe­cif­ic and mod­ern leg­is­la­tion that, among oth­er things, would seek to pro­tect pa­trons, en­ter­tain­ers/cre­atives and event pro­duc­ers.

The dis­cus­sion stems from the flopped One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val which head­lined Ja­maican dance­hall star Vy­bz Kar­tel. Of the five for­eign acts, four pulled out at the last minute, cit­ing non-ful­fil­ment of con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions as their rea­sons.