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THE Ministry of Finance approved the release of $83,861,683 million to the National Carnival Commission (NCC) on Thursday making it the first tranche of the commission’s $147 million subvention for Carnival 2023. This release of funds comes on the heel of Carnival celebrations and complaints from regional bodies over a lack of funding. On Tuesday
EVERY YEAR, Carnival takes place. And while the covid19 pandemic put the festival on ice for two years, we have known it was returning this year for some time now. So it boggles the mind to learn that the “Mother of all Carnivals” is seeing regional bodies complaining, days before J’Ouvert, about a lack of
AS regional bodies complain about the lack of funding for Carnival, head of the National Carnival Commission (NCC) Winston “Gypsy” Peters is saying it is yet to receive its promised subvention of $147 million from Government. Gypsy told the Newsday on Wednesday, once the NCC gets its money, the regions would get their subvention. Tourism,
The Chutney Soca Monarch competition is upon us once again, during this season of the Mother of All Carnivals.
THE Housing Development Corporation (HDC) intends to spend some $1 billion to complete 1,800 stalled homes and construct an additional 1,000 new homes by the end of the year. Speaking with the media at HDC’s South Quay head office on Tuesday after he and his board members were given their instruments of appointment, returning HDC