Barbados has also taken an aggressive approach towards growing its creative economy and developing its creative class, implementing policies that take advantage of the CARIFROUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement. This agreement allows Caribbean investment in European creative services and makes it easier to supply those services to the European market. In short, it provides easer market access and facilitates the formation strategic partnerships between Barbados and Europe for services from architecture to music. Barbados has also passed a Cultural Industries Development Bill which encourages private sector investment in the creative industries by using tax incentives for investments which support those industries.
I agree. we are so far behind countries like and Jamaica and Barbados when it comes to preserving and encouraging cultural and artistic development.
The rest of the Caribbean implements so much more common sense ideas than us. We just can’t get it! (or don’t want to)