{"id":2771,"date":"2010-03-27T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2010-03-27T14:04:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T18:04:53","slug":"regrello-20m-to-fix-napa-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2771","title":{"rendered":"Regrello: $20m to fix NAPA flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"

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National Academy for the Performing Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure>By Michelle Loubon
\nMarch 27, 2010 – guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Junia Regrello, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs says it will cost about $20 million to attend to the niggling issues like lighting and flooring at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA), Princes Building Grounds, Port-of-Spain. Regrello came forward yesterday in his capacity as both performer and member of government. Along with recently appointed Sharon Christopher, chair of the management committee of the auditorium, Regrello admitted to flaws that need to be addressed.
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\nRegrello said, \u201cIt would cost about $20 million… all the things that need fixing, to get the facility properly functioning and going.\u201d He said, \u201cIt is the first time I have toured the facility. It is fantastic. I am saying that as someone who has performed in the Royal Albert Hall, (London). I am sold.\u201d Regrello added, \u201cThe Sydney Opera House was built by Austrians. It took about two years to bring it to where it should be. \u201cI admit there are grey areas that need to be worked out. I know for a fact we have to change the flooring. It is laminate.\u201d Regrello appealed to the population to be \u201cpatient and give us time to work it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cLet us be proud that we have such a grand facility. It is the only one of its kind in the Caribbean.\u201d On the other hand, Rubadiri Victor, interim President of the Artists\u2019 Coalition of T&T had claimed there had not been adequate stakeholder consultation. He did so at a news conference at The Professionals\u2019 Centre, Mucurapo, on Thursday. He said the state-of-the-art edifice had conceptual, technical and programming flaws. Regarding Vijay Ramlal\u2019s (President of the National Chutney Council) claims that the Minister of Culture Marlene Mc Donald had not approved of chutney being staged there. Regrello said, \u201cNAPA is not the ideal venue for tassa, chutney and parang.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cWhat the Minister really meant is NAPA is not the space for that. It is infectious. People respond to that kind of music with a real amount of energy, vivacity and joie-de-vivre. \u201cThe Minister had also denied Pan Trinbago the request to stage Champs In Concert there, too. \u201cShe never meant it as any disrespect. But merely she wanted to keep it upscale… keep it to a certain type of entertainment. We may even have to upgrade a Best Village show to bring it in here.\u201d On the issue of promoters\u2019 claims they will not be able to stage shows there and realise a profit, Regrello said \u201cMajor productions can be subsidised by big companies. Get the big companies to buy into it. \u201cWhen the Entertainment Centre is completed… you can have that kind of event there. Promoters can stage their shows there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By Michelle Loubon March 27, 2010 – guardian.co.tt Junia Regrello, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs says it will cost about $20 million to attend to the niggling issues like lighting and flooring at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA), Princes Building Grounds, Port-of-Spain. Regrello came forward … Continue reading Regrello: $20m to fix NAPA flaws<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11,88,1,30,7],"tags":[307,308,214,82,1015,49,309],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complaints","category-culture","category-entertainment","category-general-tt","category-pnm","category-politics","tag-junia-regrello","tag-marlene-mc-donald","tag-national-academy-for-the-performing-arts","tag-patrick-manning","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt","tag-vijay-ramlal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}