00:00There were seven performances in Friday's Sando Junior Calypso Finals competition held at City Hall, San Fernando.
00:08Students ages 10 to 18 years old participated from different primary and secondary schools across South Trinidad.
00:15But it's an annual event that usually has two categories.
00:19Something, the Carnival Committee chairman says, was just not possible given NCC's funding cut.
00:25The city was given $500,000 to run Carnival compared to the $700,000 it has gotten in recent years.
00:34So this competition is one of the competitions that has been affected because last year there was a junior and senior aspect of this competition.
00:46And therefore, if we don't have the annual funding, what is going to happen?
00:51Mayor Robert Parris says while Carnival stakeholders have agreed to forego the competition aspect of events this year,
00:59this particular event for the children remained with corporate TNT's sponsorship.
01:05But even that, he says, is not what it used to be.
01:08We also have tiers of sponsorship for this competition.
01:18And you know, corporate TNT isn't as generous in this band-a-time as they were previously.
01:28So we have some sponsors that, I remember how many people from the band-a-burs?
01:32$500,000, $500,000, $500,000, $500,000, $500,000, $500,000, how much social band-a-burs?
01:38$500,000, $500,000. So I see the truth.
01:43Mayor Parris says before the NCC checked distribution of $500,000,
01:48they were told verbally the allocation would remain $700,000, even so without competition.
01:55The show, he says, will go on.
01:57I have no hope and no peace with nobody.
02:01But if you want to understand the corporate governance of regional Carnival,
02:07come and sit down with me and I'll have a discussion.
02:10So ladies and gentlemen, we will have Carnival in San Fernando.
02:15On Friday, the top three Calypso performances went to, in third place,
02:3414-year-old Asia Tid of Holy Faith Convent Pinal.
02:38So we proud of them for you, the case was...
02:42In second place, 18-year-old Josiah Ferrier of Presentation College.
02:56And first place went to 11-year-old Janaya Clark of Modern Minds Academy.
03:10Where I will lead us today, to be an example for more young people.
03:17Where I will lead us today, when the young one's looking for a role model.
03:23Who could tell her how to walk, when I see her walking crooked and looking shady.
03:29Who could tell her how to talk, when I send her adventure, go on somebody.
03:34Cindy Ragubantika Singh, TV6 News.
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