2020 Carnival prize $ jumping up in NCC, PoS Corp spat
File photo: NCC chairman Winston Gypsy Peters.
About $378,000 in prize money from the 2020 Downtown Carnival competition is yet to be paid.
On Saturday the TT Carnival Bands Association (TTCBA) sent out a release calling on Port of Spain Mayor Joel Martinez and the Downtown Carnival Committee to pay up. It is a firm belief of the members that the owner or administrator of the Downtown Carnival Competition has a moral obligation to pay prize money to winners of Carnival 2020.
TTCBA president Rosalind Gabriel told Newsday because of covid19 cancelling Carnival 2021, receiving the prize money would greatly help the struggling band leaders.