As sev­er­al state agen­cies—in­clud­ing the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB), Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), First Cit­i­zens Bank (FCB) and Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM)—with­draw their spon­sor­ship of Di­vali Na­gar, Blue Wa­ters has in­creased its fi­nan­cial com­mit­ment to the an­nu­al cul­tur­al fes­ti­val, be­com­ing an of­fi­cial Di­a­mond spon­sor for its 40th an­niver­sary.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC), which or­gan­is­es the event, an­nounced the strength­ened part­ner­ship in a me­dia re­lease on Fri­day, de­scrib­ing Blue Wa­ters as a long­stand­ing sup­port­er of Di­vali Na­gar.

The in­creased spon­sor­ship comes as the fes­ti­val pre­pares to mark four decades of cel­e­brat­ing and pre­serv­ing In­di­an cul­ture and her­itage, against the back­drop of the with­draw­al of sup­port from sev­er­al state agen­cies.

The NCIC said Blue Wa­ters had been part of Di­vali Na­gar’s jour­ney for many years, wit­ness­ing its growth in­to one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most an­tic­i­pat­ed cul­tur­al cel­e­bra­tions.

The or­gan­i­sa­tion wel­comed the en­hanced part­ner­ship, say­ing it re­flect­ed the com­pa­ny’s con­tin­ued con­fi­dence in Di­vali Na­gar’s lega­cy and its com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing ini­tia­tives that pro­mote cul­ture and com­mu­ni­ty.

The NCIC al­so ex­pressed ap­pre­ci­a­tion to Blue Wa­ters for its years of in­volve­ment and for com­mem­o­rat­ing the fes­ti­val’s mile­stone an­niver­sary through its Di­a­mond spon­sor­ship.

Di­vali Na­gar 2026 will run from Oc­to­ber 30 to No­vem­ber 7 at the NCIC Na­gar in Ch­agua­nas un­der the theme, “Vive­ka – Dis­cern­ing Truth in the Age of AI.”