00:00a nightly maxed out venue of free concerts by the nation's biggest artists the flavor village
00:07in the queen's park savannah has been a major success story for the current government and
00:12while it closes on sunday minister of culture and community development michelle benjamin says
00:18plans are already underway to improve the product and return it ahead of carnival 2027. when it
00:26comes in next year and the return of flavor they will see it come back in such
00:32grandness than what is actually existing now so allow us to take it down and allow us to do the
00:39necessary so that when we put it back it'll be more somewhat permanent and flavor would be opening
00:46back in december speaking to tv6 news on saturday morning at a community development outreach
00:53program in new grand princess town minister benjamin was asked about what flavor 2026 cost
01:00taxpayers i can't give you an exact budget because there was the infrastructure part of it and then
01:09ncc would have um sort out the bookings with regards to the different artists so the budget itself for
01:16flavor was too full but i could tell you for the numbers over 300 000 that passed through flavor
01:24taxpayers did get value for money and i'm trying to bring it back in a way that is less burden
01:30on the
01:30taxpayer and more value she says as for this year's flavor village it closes off a little differently on sunday
01:39flavor closes tomorrow in a word of praise so we will have different pastors and different gospel artists
01:48in flavor closing it off with a word of prayer and that is a mainstay with regards to flavor um
01:54it
01:55would be closed off um in a word of prayer i'm giving the community that further outreach and
02:02turn around tobago as our reading queen say need a blessing cindy raguba tika singh tv6 news
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