NCC SEEKS TO ENSURE A SAFE CARNIVAL 2025

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When it comes to Carnival, "Trinidad and Tobago is crime free." The words of National Carnival Commission Chairman Winston "Gypsy" Peters, who is inviting people, local and foreign, to come and enjoy the "Greatest Show on Earth." Alicia Boucher has more in this report.

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00:00The greatest show on earth is one week away and several events including stick

00:04fighting, the Panorama large band finals, Dimash Gra, Olmas and Juvé will

00:10proceed the parade of the bands on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. Chairman of

00:14the National Carnival Commission Winston Gypsy Peters is making this pronouncement.

00:19This is the safest carnival that you can ever come to and forget about

00:23what you hear in about crime and things. Trinidad and Tobago is crime free as far

00:28as carnival is concerned. Come to our carnival, enjoy it and have a wonderful time.

00:33The police service has revealed that it is strapped for resources amid a

00:38state of emergency and as such it has affected at least two party promoters.

00:42But I can tell you that we have been having discussions with the police from

00:46since August or September or thereabout. We've been having meetings and we've

00:50been planning. The police have been involved in every step of the way of the

00:54planning of National Carnival Commission carnival and the thing about it is

00:58that we are seeing it. It is safe you know and at the beginning of our

01:04conversation I said to you that there's no such thing as perfection in the world

01:08in the entire world. No such thing and this is no different.

01:14The NCC chairman says the SOE has been at the forefront of discussions with the

01:18TTPS and apart from that he tells us the Commission is also upping its security.

01:23Carnival 2025 is set to take place under a 148 million dollar budget.

01:29Asked how much of that allocation the NCC has received from the government.

01:33Most times we get the last set or the second set or the third set or whatever

01:39set we do get it after carnival.

01:43Would you say most of the allocation has been dispersed or would you say half of it?

01:50Maybe half, maybe half, maybe half of it. A significant amount, yes.

01:56But Peters tells us this will not affect prizes to be given out for carnival competitions.

02:01They would be paid on time. We do have a price giving, a price giving period where

02:07we put all these things together, yes.

02:11Right, so you prioritize that and then some of the people would not, who would take longer to be paid or what?

02:17The contractors and stuff, the people who do all these edifices that you see all over the country,

02:23all over the country, yes, a lot of times we owe these people but we make sure that

02:28the artisans of carnival are our first priority.

02:32Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.

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