Trinidad Express - by Gary Cardinez

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.

Manchouck said, “I never felt that doing the parade would have been so difficult. All I want to do is honour the steelpan, a gift this country gave to the world. I am truly hoping to develop this into a world class Steelpan Float Parade for the people of this country to enjoy.”

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar came to the rescue of the Steelpan Festival of Trinidad and Tobago (Steelfestt) Float Parade which was carded to come off on September 22.


After being blanked by the National Gas Company, despite the pleas of this country’s first ever Olympic Gold medallist Hasely Crawford, Steelfestt chairman Maureen Manchouck sent an application to the PM’s Office requesting funding and the PM gave instructions to have the request fulfilled.


After a week of uncertainty, Manchouck said she was pleased to get the assistance but the parade had to be pushed back to today.


“Everything came to a standstill when NGC told us they were not sponsoring the event, it would have broken my heart to go to these bands to tell them the parade was off, not after all the hard work they put in,” Manchouck said.
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  • and the only Tobago band got dropped because of it's affiliation with NGC...hmmm....

  • To all that want to do something for the steelband work towards them being on the road for carnival, steelbands MUST be able to partake of the spoils of carnival. All that's being done now is because of the guilt some feel for standing bye and watching  the steelband pushed out of carnival.

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