Are you ready, get set

Are you ready

Get set… Lyrics to the song “Obadele” By Edwin Yearwood

Crop over 2007 is again upon us.
Are you ready?

Time for the tent meetings.
Time for recording and mixing and looking to release your music.

Time once again for the dreaded negotiations with the National Cultural Foundations (NCF) as it relates to the rules of the 2007 calypso competitions. I use the word dreaded deliberately…..

I have seen a draft of the rules for this year and again the NCF is presenting rules that are skewed very much in favor of…. Guess Who?

Themselves!

I wonder some times if the NCF has never heard of NISE!
The concept of the National Initiative for Service Excellence Seems to escape them.

The concept is one of recognizing the responsibility of service providers to deliver a quality service to customers.

In other words we calypsonians/entertainers are the customers and NCF is the service provider that should be facilitating and servicing us, that’s probably news to you ent it?
Well it would be news to the NCF too.

Almost all the proposed amendments are designed with making life easier for the NCF to the disadvantage of the calypsonian.

It appears as though the NCF meets with itself, addresses its own concerns and then seeks to inflict them on the industry. I used the word inflict deliberately too.

In other words there is not a time where correspondence is sent to UAB, Bacchanal Time or Edwin asking, ‘were you happy with what happened last year?’ What do you feel needs to be done to make things better for you this year?

That is what NCF service to us should be instead of embarking on its own skewed revenue generating objectives which conflict with its constitutionally enshrined mandate. Which is developing Culture, that is you and me …

I was going to give you an example of some of those skewed amendments, but you know what……

You are too malicious!

Besides then they will say I was premature as nothing has been finalized yet, and I don’t want to be premature, that is not usually a good thing.

I will how ever leave you and the NCF with this wise saying from a great man aka me….

“Ask not what culture can do for you but what you can do for culture…”

Peter “The Clown” Boyce

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