The non-renewal of Donna Hunte-Cox’s contract as chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) will not impact the staging of this year’s Crop Over Festival.
But the changing of a CEO on the eve of the festival might not have been the best timing.
That was the consensus among some festival stakeholders, who would have interacted with the players at the NCF over the years, when they spoke to the SUNDAY SUN yesterday.
“Many of the decisions that had to be made were already made [but], prior to that we were not seeing the CEO at a lot of the meetings.
“We should be able to move forward, but to make a change like that at this time causes us great concern,” said Sharon Carew-White, who is a member of the tent organization The Alliance, and also manager of the House Of Soca. (JS/YB)
Read the full story in today’s SUNDAY SUN.
