Posted by Pan Times on February 27, 2015 at 9:33am
I estimate that probably about 1/6th of the working class in Port of Spain and environs is employed as Security, Rope-holders, and Hired Help in Pretty Mas Mardi Gras bands- and in CPEP cleaning up the road after these bands. Literally thousands of the working class. Especially the young men. At one time these same young working -class black men made up most of the masqueraders and creators of the Carnival... There marginalisation from the Centre of the Festival is why it has lost nearly all its Power...by Rubadiri Victor
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