Trinidad & Tobago: ‘Mas in April?   · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“They should save their symposium-organising money and use it for something else, because the idea is just plain absurd”: Caribbean Free Radio responds to news that a group of “Carnival stakeholders” is proposing “that Trinidad and Tobago’s age-old pre-lenten Carnival be moved to a more ‘convenient’ date”; while Nicholas Laughlin writes: “These are the same people who have cut Carnival off from its community roots in the name of corporate sponsorship.”