SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

From go­ril­las in full PPE to blue dev­ils with res­pi­ra­tors and a new vari­ant of the COVID-19 virus, the pan­dem­ic played a ma­jor role in this year's Tra­di­tion­al and Con­ven­tion­al Mas In­di­vid­u­als Com­pe­ti­tion on Sun­day morn­ing.

How­ev­er, the event, held at Car­ni­val City in Queen's Park Sa­van­nah did not draw a large crowd of spec­ta­tors as many ex­pect­ed.

Com­mis­sion­er on the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC), Ros­alind Gabriel, told Guardian Me­dia she was very dis­ap­point­ed with the small num­ber of peo­ple who turned up to wit­ness one of the tra­di­tion­al as­pects of this year's Taste of Car­ni­val.

Gabriel said she does not be­lieve any­thing could have been done dif­fer­ent­ly to en­cour­age the pub­lic to at­tend the event, as she point­ed out ad­mis­sion was free to the pub­lic.