“They should save their symposium-organising money and use it for something else, because the idea is just plain absurd”: Caribbean Free Radio [1] 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 [2] writes: “These are the same people who have cut Carnival off from its community roots in the name of corporate sponsorship.”
Trinidad & Tobago: ‘Mas in April?
· Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
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