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As the saying goes Carnival is Bacchanal and bacchanal is Carnival...Well, controversy is already stirring debate over culture, commerce and morality.

The Archbishop of Port of Spain is condemning what he describes as the growing excesses of the fete industry—this time over an adult novelty gifted to masqueraders by a major Carnival band.

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00:00William Shakespeare once wrote a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
00:06But according to the Archbishop of Porto, Spain, this particular rose carries a very different meaning.
00:13What we now reach there is hedonism. That's where we are.
00:17Archbishop Jason Gordon was responding to Carnival Band Tribe,
00:21which included an adult sex toy called the rose in its customary goodie bag for female masqueraders.
00:28Hashtag tribe gone too far.
00:34Just as I've asked the government to regulate social media for the sake of our children,
00:41if tribe cannot pull back on its own, I think the government will have to regulate it.
00:48Archbishop Gordon is urging those who share his concerns to voice their dissent on the band's social media platforms.
00:55He argues that large bands and the wider fat industry are straying from Carnival's roots
01:01as a symbol of freedom, resistance and cultural identity.
01:06Now these are the same people who own Stink and Dirty.
01:11The same people who own Get Naked.
01:13The same people who own island crashes that corrupt our children every single year in Tobago.
01:20Own my one person. Two people max.
01:22He says Carnival Monday and Tuesday along with major fets are increasingly being monopolized
01:28by a select few, shifting Carnival away from artistic street theater
01:33and into what he calls a purely commercial exercise that clashes with society's value system.
01:41Our country is not for sale and our young people are not for sale.
01:45We, the good citizens of this beautiful country, have to start putting guardrails for our children.
01:53The Archbishop describes tribes' action as the opposite of nation building,
01:58calling for a reset of Carnival's direction.
02:01We have to stop.
02:03We have to stop this.
02:05We have to dial it back and we have to bring Carnival back to what it has always been,
02:12a celebration of the life, vitality and creativity of Trinidad and Tobago.
02:18A regular at Pan Tense and a self-described lover of Carnival,
02:22Archbishop Gordon says he values the unity and beauty of the festival,
02:27but believes it has now drifted dangerously off course.
02:31We have to dial this back and if the company is unwilling to dial it back,
02:41then the citizens have to ask the government, put regulations.
02:46Ravishita Wari, Rupnarain, TV6 News.
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