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It shouldn't be surprising, given the NCC’s failure to hold a public consultation on the copyright issues that arose in 2013, to find the whole ugly mess bubbling up again.
Photographers who went to the NCC to seek accreditation for the 2014 edition of the event found no reductions in the fee and a new and shocking issue to deal with.
On February 11, photographers seeking a pass to cover Carnival were told that if they checked the online option on the form, it would not be approved.
The NCBA, they were told, had sold the right to publish online to a single unnamed entity.
Read Narend Sooknarine’s account of that meeting here.
That story changed within 24 hours to an approval for websites. When confronted with this story by the Guardian's Kalifa Clyne last week, NCBA bossman David Lopez dismissed the possibility.
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