Guyanese artists, craftsmen and women who travelled to Suriname to display and market their art and craft at the recently concluded 11th Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) were required to pay a non-refundable fee on their respective consignments, contrary to what they understood to be the conditions under which they were participating in the regional festival.
Irene Bacchus, a member of the Guyana art and craft contingent that participated in CARIFESTA in Paramaribo told Stabroek Business that the imposition of the tax came as a surprise to the Main Street creative arts group with which she travelled to Suriname. Bacchus said that while