Co-Chair of the CARICOM Regional Task Force on Cultural Industries, Adrian Augier, last Thursday told a meeting of culture ministers in Georgetown that the Caribbean had failed to maximize its advantage in the creative cultural industries.
He called for Intellectual Property (IP) Legislation that would support major regional artists. Augier pointed out, the region had forfeited significant potential revenue which could be derived from their top-earning artists and entrepreneurs, according to a press release from the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen.
Augier was quoted as saying also that the urgent response to this was the creation of an “enabling, enlightened, informed policy environment that was consistently accessible to