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Assistant City Manager Len Bramble said Thursday that McGowan and other merchants may only have to wait until June 19-20, when the city hopes to host the Howard Alan-produced 28th annual Downtown Venice Craft Festival. “We are keenly interested in how we might be able to carefully open things up slowly and methodically back up,” Bramble said, adding that the city has been chatting with representatives of Howard Alan Events about an appropriate COVID-19 social distancing plan. “We’re going to be discussing that with them early next week.” After that, Bramble said the city hopes to be able to permit a July 4 fireworks display, then the Venice MainStreet-sponsored Venice Beach Party and the Women’s Sertoma-sponsored Sun Fiesta and the Chalk Festival at the Venice Municipal Airport Fairgrounds. ....
Bebop in the BOP: Jazz fanatics swinging to Tauranga for annual Easter festival stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Not learning from errors Thursday 11 March 2021 THE EDITOR: It is such a shame that TT will be known to the outside world as a country that cannot pay its bills on time. The horribly overstaffed Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA), due to bad management, is owing billions of dollars. Petrotrin drained government resources and it too was overstaffed, having replaced Texaco many years previously. No prize money has been paid by the Port of Spain Corporation to the winners of its Downtown Carnival 2020 competitions. When I lived in Barbados, I asked my neighbour why were so many workers on a particular job when only two were working? He said the government was keeping them “off the roads.” ....
'Awesome talent' as National Jazz Festival returns to Tauranga at Easter nzherald.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nzherald.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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. ....