The recent announcement of the first batch of beneficiaries under the inaugural Guyana Fund for Cultural and Creative Industries (GFCCI) represents the end of an almost 25-year-long quest for artist Barrington Braithwaite.
According to Braithwaite, who is among the 16 persons whose projects will be funded under the GFCCI, he has been seeking to get financial support for the creative and cultural industries on the radar of successive governments and other organisations since the early 1990s but to no avail.
“As an artist in this country, if you don’t do the work yourself, it’s not going to happen,” he said in an interview.
