Kali­fa Clyne

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) is still work­ing with Min­is­ter of Arts and Mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism Lin­coln Dou­glas on the al­lo­ca­tion of prize mon­ey for Car­ni­val com­pe­ti­tions. "The NCC had pro­posed an over­all in­crease for Car­ni­val 2013 for the sum of $27.3 mil­lion and we are very pleased that Cab­i­net had ac­ced­ed to our re­quest," said chair­man Al­li­son De­mas.

"In re­la­tion to prize mon­ey, we are work­ing on those de­tails with the min­is­ter so that soon we can say ex­act­ly what those prizes would be." De­mas made the state­ments yes­ter­day while ad­dress­ing the me­dia at a joint press con­fer­ence with Port-of-Spain May­or Louis Lee Sing.