Peter Ray Blood
Published:
Friday, October 20, 2017
T&T Carnival literally runs on diesel fuel and, with the increase in diesel, from $2.30 per litre to $3.41, Carnival 2018 could certainly be negatively affected. Bandleaders, steelbands, promoters all rely on the transportation of instruments, equipment and music, with significant reliance on dieselfuelled cabs that carry trailers. For some mas bands, costumes have already been fixed so it is now too late to pass on any increased cost of fuel to the masquerader.
http://www.guardian.co.tt/life-lead/2017-10-20/more-diesel-carnival-2018
Replies
Like the idea of pan on the road again, miss this a whole lot. But, the roads need to be fixed to make it easy to push the pans. Come on now we have a pitch lake make use of it.
When yuh pay the haulers big money, nutten lef for de panman, and so it goes as it has been going........for decades.
Corporation trucks, Defense force trucks, WASA trucks, Petrotrin trucks, Prison trucks, TTEC trucks.....ALL FREE to transport steelbands, eh?