Newsday Feb 10, 2022
"MUCH of this ill-defined 'taste of carnival' has the distinct flavour of a cultural URP – run some money and let some people like deyself.
In that respect, it truly is just a taste of Carnival, which, under normal circumstances is a sprawling, inexcusably crass smorgasbord of waste propagated by a welfare state under the guise of nourishing cultural patrimony.
For this mad experiment, a budget was pegged vaguely between 25 and 30 million. When some baulked at the costs in the context of fiscal drought across government ministries, NCC chair Winston "Gypsy" Peters countered, "Normal carnival costs 100 million dollars."
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Not EVERYBODY drinks THE CULTURAL KOOL AID ... what an article. And I thought that I was the only one who had an "OUTSIDE VIEW" of the MINDSETS and THE DATA!!!