Trinidad Newsday
CHAIRMAN of the National Carnival Commission (NCC) Kenny de Silva yesterday rubbished claims of over-selling of tickets for the North Stand of the Queen’s Park Savannah during the Panorama semi finals on Sunday.
Asked to respond to the claim made in another daily newspaper as well as complaints over the unavailability of Grand Stand tickets, de Silva said: “Absolutely not true! The NCC did not oversell tickets for Sunday’s show nor did we say that grand stand tickets were not available.” The article also stated that Pan Trinbago PRO Michael Joseph accused the NCC of being the cause of Panorama going till after 4 am Monday. Joseph admitted in the article that they wanted to give small bands the opportunity to play to the big stage audience but that never happened since the stands remained almost bare for more than half of the small bands presentations.
Small bands took from 9.30 am on Sunday until 5.26 pm to get through their paces, after which the medium bands played from 5.46 pm to 10.20 pm, then came the start of the 14 large bands.
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it is obvious Pan Trinbago will never say the NCC did a good job. The elected to pad the small bands to make the NCC look bad, then comes the blame GAME.
these events and blame game come like a road march every year
We all know that Rolly Polly has his annual panorama ticket scam, that's why he was hell bent in being involved.
There is a news clip where the PR man spoke about tickets, in it he said "we'll let them [NCC] sell it" maybe these tickets were the ones in the hands of scalpers. Anyhow you look at it every year there was scalping.
Maybe College Boy could spill the beans about the ticket scam.
A case of fake news being disseminated by Rolly Polly, D'Photo and the gangstas.
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