While several businesses in the regional entertainment sector continue to offer limited and intermittent services that help to keep business afloat during the rampage of the coronavirus pandemic, for the country’s cinema industry it is a question of whether it can get anywhere close to the end of the present long, dark tunnel, far less see light at the other end.
Last week in Port of Spain, an official of one of Trinidad and Tobago’s largest cinemas, Cinema One, spoke out about the pall of gloom that has descended on the industry in which investors have pumped millions in recent years.
Last week, Cinema One’s Ingrid Jahra said that there was mounting concern among the country’s approximately 1,500 employees in the sector as to whether and when they were likely to return to their jobs.