00:00We are here for a very important aspect of how we intend to do our events in the future.
00:09So we're not just presenting to you funds to support your bands, to support your events, to support your carnival dreams to be.
00:19But this is the start of a Tobago Festivals Commission that is becoming more and more serious and intentional about growing the creative sector in Tobago.
00:30Calypso Rose would be flying in from New York to join in the 2024 edition of Tobago's Carnival.
00:37Last year, we had T-PAC doing the Queen of the Road musical, which was a tribute to Calypso Rose, who is going to be joining us for Carnival this year.
00:48We have ensured that every single year we're coming with something different, that we're evolving the product, that we're keeping it fresh, that we're keeping it new.
00:57CEO of the Tobago Festivals Commission Limited, Curtin Cowan, said there needs to be a moving away from the dependency on the THA.
01:06That we are interested in who our stakeholders are, how we support them, and we are interested in growing this orange economy to a place of sustainability.
01:19Not dependency, but sustainability.
01:23$9 million has been allocated for Tobago's Carnival.
01:27Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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