00:00How many booths do you have all together around Savannah?
00:04I think we have about 150, 150 something booths.
00:08If you take a walk or a drive around the Queen's Park Savannah, you'll notice that while some
00:13of the vending booths appear vibrant with color, many of them are still painted in plain
00:18white, setting them apart from those that are not.
00:21With Carnival now one week away, it might appear to some that the preparations are lagging
00:26behind.
00:27However, Chairman of the National Carnival Commission, Winston Gypsy Peters, told TV6
00:31News on Monday that it's not on the NCC's end.
00:36Because a lot of those booths, as a matter of fact, most of the booths around the Savannah
00:39are sponsored.
00:40You have sponsors that take over these booths and they put the coloring and they put all
00:44the brandings and I'm sure that when you pass there, you see them doing exactly that because
00:49I just came from there less than 10 minutes ago and that's exactly what they're doing.
00:53All these sponsors are putting on the branding.
00:57That's why this year the booths are basically white.
00:59So the branding will show up a little more and not get totally lost in everything that's
01:03taking place there and their coloring.
01:05Peters said the booths are meant to allow small entrepreneurs an opportunity to earn
01:09revenue and perhaps even teach their children about business in the process.
01:14Do you have any unoccupied booths at this time or have all been sold out?
01:20All the booths have been sold out but you know people do occupy all the booths when
01:24they pay for it.
01:25They pay for it sometimes, sometimes something goes wrong, they do occupy it.
01:29Sometimes something goes wrong, they occupy it late and stuff.
01:31It depends on their own pockets.
01:33But the possibility exists where an unoccupied booth could be an opportunity missed for someone
01:39who may have wanted a chance to vend at a Savannah for Carnival.
01:43So what happens there?
01:44Nothing, they pay for it and if you pay for something and you didn't occupy it, it's just
01:48that we can't do anything after that happens.
01:50The fact remains is that it was given to them, it's their own and their own pockets
01:55may not or their expectations, sometimes we do things with expectations of getting this
02:01or getting that to have it done and then it's not done so the business idea that you have
02:06go awry, I'm a businessman and things like that happen.
02:09Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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