Newsday September 29, 2020
“We don’t have anything right now that encourages visitors, we need to do a comprehensive rescheduling of our tourism product and have it ready for 2021. This is the time for all the planning, but if it is we’re sitting down and going through the same process year after year stifling the Festivals Commission, stifling calypsonians, stifling this one and that one, the same thing would happen again.”
Earlier this year, Chairman of the National Carnival Commission Winston Gypsy Peters had put the suggestion of a separate Tobago Carnival back on the agenda, a plug he has been making since being the culture minister in the People’s Partnership government. Peters had held talks on the matter with then-chief secretary Kelvin Charles.
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