Colombia helping to develop skills of artisans and designers

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Colombia will provide assistance to Barbados as the island seeks to develop the technical skills of artisans and designers. A delegation from the South-South Cooperation Department of the Ministry of External Relations of Colombia and the Artesanias de Colombia Corporation has arrived here on a three-day visit and according to an official statement, will be “conducting a diagnostic mission which will involve discussions and training sessions with the staff of the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC) and stakeholders. “Arrangements for a technical cooperation project between Barbados and Colombia for the strengthening of the local creative industries stem from a proposal put to the Government of Colombia in August last year by the Embassy of Barbados in Caracas and the BIDC,” according to the statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.