January 9, 2020

“The NCC Does Not Belong To Gypsy”

By Newsroom

Pan Trinbago is at loggerheads with the National Carnival Commission (NCC)  over the North Park, which pulled in just over TT$1 million in revenue for carnival 2019, a far cry from what the North Stand, which is replaced, would bring in gate receipts.

Pan Trinbago President, Beverley Ramsey Moore,  accused the NCC Chairman, Winston Gypsy Peters of having an agenda to destroy the Special Interest Groups that are represented on the Board of the NCC.

Saying that he treats her with “disrespect and arrogance”   the Pan Trinbago President declared that she is not taking “ any gun talk” from the Chairman because “nobody voted for him”.

“Pan Trinbago is a powerful organization, a social force and the NCC does not belong to Gypsy,” she declared at the news conference where she was flanked by the Central Executive.

“The population rejected Winston Gypsy Peters’ novel idea of a North Park which cost more than the North Stand,” Mrs Ramsey Moore declared at a news conference on Thursday morning.

“He is saying that based on an exit survey that persons were satisfied with the idea,  but he cannot speak for the thousands who did not go,” she stated adding that the “North Park is a cursed word.

Suggesting Pan City as an alternative, Mrs Ramsey Moore said colleagues on the NC board are happy with the idea and they are working towards  adjusting the idea of the North Park to bring the three covered areas that were featured in 2019, closer together, “ so that people will feel more connected.” 

A decision is yet to be taken on that idea.

In the meantime, even though the 2020 Panorama agenda is well on the way, Single Pan bands are yet to received assistance and prize money for the competition which ended in November.

And 31 small bands that will compete in the  National semi-finals on Saturday are still waiting for word on whether they will get any assistance to bring the bands to Victoria Square for the competition.

Ramsey Moore said the Ministry of Culture has intervened and said the money is likely to be made available to the  NCC by tomorrow, the day before the competition.

   

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