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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