Rhon­da Krys­tal Ram­bal­ly

Bri­an Mac Far­lane has won the George Bai­ley Award for Band of the Year for the sixth con­sec­u­tive year. Mac Far­lane's Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion–In Search Of scored 1,337 points. Tri­ni Rev­ellers placed sec­ond with 1,278 points for its pre­sen­ta­tion Car­ni­val, The Gold­en Years, while Lega­cy's Flight came in third with 1,246 points. The re­sults were an­nounced yes­ter­day at a press con­fer­ence held by the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) at the VIP Lounge, Queen's Park Sa­van­nah.

Pres­i­dent of the NCC Patrick Arnold an­nounced the win­ners of the (Large) Band of the Year (Se­niors) cat­e­go­ry. Mac Far­lane is now on par with de­ceased mas man Wayne Berke­ley who cap­tured the ti­tle con­sec­u­tive­ly from 1989 to 1994. Ef­forts to con­tact Mac Far­lane proved fu­tile. In 2007, Mac Far­lane won the ti­tle with In­dia: the Sto­ry of Boyie; in 2008, with Earth: Cries of De­spair; in 2009, with Africa: Her Peo­ple, Her Glo­ry, Her Tears; in 2010, with Res­ur­rec­tion–the Mas and last year with Hu­man­i­ty: Cir­cle of Life.

Ron­nie and Caro's The Mas Band placed fourth with 1,181 points; Show­time Trinidad's Species came in fifth with 1,167 points; Trinidad All Stars (Steel­band) Fleets In placed sixth with 1,126 points and Dream Team Car­ni­val's Un­tamed placed sev­enth with 1,022 points. In a stark con­trast, Mac Far­lane copped sec­ond po­si­tion in the Down­town Car­ni­val. The re­sults were re­leased in a state­ment by the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion late yes­ter­day. Tri­ni Rev­ellers cap­tured first place and Lega­cy, ranked third.

The Catholic Band's Ex­o­dus, The Sec­ond Book of the Bible, pro­duced by The Word and As­so­ciates, failed to se­cure a place in the Down­town Car­ni­val com­pe­ti­tion. The band, now in its sec­ond year won the NCC's medi­um Band of the Year ti­tle with 1,208 points. Machel Mon­tano's Pump Yuh Flag was played 61 times down­town. He is the 2012 Road March champ.