Newsday 2/2/2022
"CARNIVAL this year is meant to be a scaled-down affair, but it is already apparent one aspect of the festival will not be scaled back: the bacchanal.
Not a single event in the so-called “A Taste of Carnival” has been staged, but already ruction has begun, with raucous reaction to National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters’s disclosure on Monday that the redesigned festival has been budgeted at $25-$30 million.
People on social media and elsewhere reacted angrily to this disclosure, questioning whether such money could not be better spent especially amidst a pandemic."
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