Say No to Bajan; Where is Lil Rick?
Boyce is in a quandary as it relates to deciphering the fee policy of the National Cultural Foundation, while government is being viewed as discriminatory because of its recently stated immigration stance on non nationals it seems the NCF is looking to balance the odds by discriminating and unfairing local artistes.
Note last year in order to justify the huge fee U.S $25000.00+ that NCF paid Trinidadian Machel Montano to participate in Cohobblopot, Minister of Culture Blackette proudly proclaimed “An artiste must be paid what he is worth”.
So American Rap artistes etc were all booked on that event and paid the thousands of U.S dollars “they were worth”.
Now this year have you noticed a dearth of major local acts from this years Cavalcades?
No Lil Rick, No Peter Ram, No Mr. Dale, do you know why you are not seeing some of these artistes who helped to develop cavalcades from scratch?
Negotiations have broken down between NCF and these artistes cause they can’t pay the money the local acts are charging.
Apparently you can tell an artiste what he is worth, but he must be Bajan. It seems as though NCF admin looks at the world through Trini glasses, when you log onto their official website promoting Barbados Crop Over, the first thing you see is Destra Garcia saying she is going to be here performing for Crop Over, seems like she is booked already, and she will not be paid any poo poo money.she is not a Bajan you know.
I hear that there is even a Trini consultant working with the NCF advising them on Crop Over affairs, this is after they claimed they could not afford local talent.
The policy of NCF clearly states say yes to Trini’s no matter what the cost and no to Bajans.
P.S; I know I have been tardy in my writings and profusely apologise, I recognise how there seems to be an effort to rename this season a Crap Over Festival and it needs to be spoken too, spoking therefore is what Boyce Voice will do…carrier to noise ratio
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May 20th, 2009 at 10:31 am
i agree wid u peter i think that evry year Bajan artist get unfair, i know lil rick and the rest worht just as much at the machels and destras we need to support our local talent
May 20th, 2009 at 10:46 am
it all goes to show how stupid bajans really are, dont support their own, but wud pay for all these so called good artistes dis big bunch a money to cum an put on thier lil 5 minute show
May 20th, 2009 at 11:17 am
i have been talking about this for a very long time, glad to see you wrote on it, i just hope Dem at the ncf read this too
May 20th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Peter the calvacades this year are the worst they have ever had…after cutting them to six they now left out some of the better artiste that ppl generally go to hear I hope you hold a show and bring all de bashment artiste that we de ppl like to hear .
May 20th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Could that be because, A nay-nay consultant who puts on a couple shows a year, and set up a business that the NCF is the only client, and de same nay-nay consultant dat got trini connections, and dat does tell de trini artistes not to perform at other shows here, but de ones he put on, now works with the NCF to make all types of policy decisions wid de blessings of de man dat put he in place? Could it be. When de BLP people did doing de same thing, at least dem was meking sure dat Bajans did getting de kick backs., Now de DLP disappoint me, cause dem doing de same shite, but now de Bajans aint even getting nutten outa um. All types of Trinis profitting greatly from de same kinda politics of inclusion. I say. soon from now bout here gine get really messed up. Time for a Change… Dat is wuh dum say but we see what kinda change, only small change. De more things change de more dey remain de same. So Bajan Artistes look out. so long as dat nay nay nobody consultant get de go ahead to “rain” (pun intended), wunna ass gine be grass till he get move. But time longer dan twine and de longest night gotta end, so let he enjoy he 3 remaining years. He gine soon be like de rest dat dat was scratching dem head when de last change came about.
Artistes rule.. Get up and do something to change things bout hey yuh. Kick bout de yardfowls and tek way dem eggs, cause dem is a bunch of setting hens dat sitting down waiting to see how much dem could get in a short span. Dem don’t know dat easy come easy go.
May 25th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Dem reading, loud and clear, and writing bout it in de papers
May 30th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
@sas: where are these stupid bajans you speak of? i bajan, i not stupid, i dont support shows which sideline local acts, so if you wanna speak of yourself fine, but don’t try to paint me with the same brush
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:22 am
I am new here and I can’t believe what wanna writing here. If this is true and I highly doubt that you would tell a bold-faced lie like this, it is too incredible for words except to say “what the hell the NCF think? Bajans artists are amongst the best in the world so if others are paid then Bajans have to get paid too. You think that maybe this is some kind of oversight? Did anyone protest this situation to higher authorities?
June 7th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
By the time the three years is up the damage will be done so why wait until three years are up ? We should act now
June 20th, 2009 at 11:02 am
DEM KILLL DE CALVACADES ,DEM AINT GPT NA MONEY FA DE BIG LOCAL TALENT BUT AT DE LAST CALVACADE I SEE DEM BRING IN AH TRINI AND SHE DANCERS WHO PAID FOR THEM WERE THERE HERE FA FREE ,DEM KILL PARTY MONARCK FINALS WHAT WILL THEY DO NEXT ,WHY DONT THEY LKE ABOUT CROP OVER SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:34 am
I am a bajan by residency and I can’t understand why the locals aren’t given the opportuinty to preform, they were the ones that made cropover what it is today. I know Lil Rick when he started off just as selling discs in the bus stand and work his way up to be a name people like to hear preforming and now they are denied that voice that gets everyone on their feet.
It’s a shame that this is what cropover has come to. Hope they sort this out soon before they kill the spirit of cropover.