Public officials map out new plans for sector Article by December 18, 2020 Government said Thursday it will take fresh guard with its culture portfolio, signalling its intent on breathing new life into every aspect of the sector as the country emerges from the grip of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Key public officials met this week with Prime Minister Mia Mottley for more than three hours, as the first step in what will be a series of wider consultations with partners across the sector. The talks ranged from the raising of the profile of the Rock Hall Freedom Park in St. Thomas to the virtual remaking of Queen’s Park into a facility with a genuinely Bajan character as the island’s cultural capital, plans for the rekindling of dormant youth and cultural groups in communities across the island and the formation of new ones, to setting the 150-year-old Barbados Landship on the new voyage.