Rental charges are only a fraction of the financial burden placed on producers who use the National Cultural Centre (NCC), according to producer Gem Madhoo-Nascimento.
In a recent letter published in the Stabroek News, Madhoo-Nascimento, the Managing Director of GEMS Theatre Productions, took issue with a claim by Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony that the NCC was not making money and unable to sustain its operations because of a low rental cost. “If the centre was making money we could have been able to invest this money,” Anthony told a recent press conference, while saying that the ministry would have to find money in its budget to over almost$80M in renovations.
But according to Madhoo-Nascimento, who suggested that the minister was not properly guided, the rental charges are only a