Speaking publicly on the topic for the first time since making the announcement that there will be a Crop Over 2022, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley reassured Barbadians that the annual festival will be staged “responsibly”.This is welcomed news especially at this time as our COVID-19 numbers continue to rise.The Prime Minister who is also the Minister of Culture was speaking Wednesday on VOB’s Down the Brasstacks call in programme, when she told Barbadians that while she felt the country was ready to stage such a mass event, the country however had to be guided by Chief Medical Officer Dr. The Most Honourable Kenneth George.Mottley told listeners: “I believe that the CMO [Chief Medical Officer] and others felt that they could take a risk with a Kadooment but it could not be in a densely populated area which could lead to  greater public health issues.“I therefore am sensitive to the fact that you may have vendors along the route and I have asked the NCF [National Cultural Foundation] to try to accommodate as many vendors in the new location as possible. Sometimes you will get changes.