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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

NCC supports PM on no Carnival for 2021

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1694 days ago
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Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) says it will be work­ing close­ly with all stake­hold­ers and the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture and The Arts, on ways to in­no­vate the Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val prod­uct for a post-COVID-19 world.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued to­day, the NCC says it ful­ly sup­ports the an­nounce­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley that giv­en the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, “Car­ni­val 2021 is not on…”

The NCC says it will be look­ing at ways to sus­tain T&T Car­ni­val, and the liveli­hoods of all in­volved in its pro­duc­tion.

The fol­low­ing is the full text of the NCC state­ment…

NCC ME­DIA STATE­MENT – CAR­NI­VAL 2021 POST­PONE­MENT

The  Na­tion­al  Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion  of  Trinidad  and  To­ba­go  (NCC)  is  in  com­plete  ac­cord  with  the  re­cent an­nounce­ment  by the Prime Min­is­ter, Dr  The Ho­n­ourable Kei­th Row­ley and the Gov­ern­ment of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go with re­spect to the ad­journ­ment of Car­ni­val 2021, in the face of the on­go­ing COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

As the Prime Min­is­ter right­ful­ly in­di­cat­ed, the preser­va­tion of lives and liveli­hoods is of para­mount im­por­tance, and, giv­en the ex­pect­ed tra­jec­to­ry of the pan­dem­ic, it is high­ly un­like­ly at this time to con­sid­er as a giv­en, the stag­ing of the an­nu­al fes­ti­val.

Our  next  steps,  as  an  or­gan­i­sa­tion  com­mit­ted  to  cul­tur­al  de­vel­op­ment  and cel­e­bra­tion, there­fore, de­pend heav­i­ly on build­ing on the ground­work that we have al­ready laid  in place with our stake­hold­ers to re­struc­ture and in­no­vate Car­ni­val and its many events, and ex­plor­ing  vi­able  ways of dig­i­tal­ly  pro­mot­ing the Fes­ti­val,  while  safe­guard­ing both its sus­tain­abil­i­ty and the na­tion’s health and well­be­ing.

The  NCC  re­mains  op­ti­mistic  as  the  Gov­ern­ment’s  an­nounce­ment  has  un­doubt­ed­ly fur­ther  opened the way for mean­ing­ful dis­course with re­gard to  how we can still cel­e­brate Car­ni­val be­yond the scope of a pure­ly phys­i­cal event,  and pro­vide av­enues for many of the Fes­ti­val’s in­dus­tries and mem­bers to grow and de­vel­op dur­ing this chal­leng­ing time.

As al­ways, the NCC stands com­mit­ted to up­hold­ing the  Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sions,  as our lead­er­ship and our peo­ple con­tin­ue to nav­i­gate this glob­al pan­dem­ic, al­ways hold­ing in the high­est re­gard the safe­ty and well-be­ing of our pop­u­la­tion, which in­cludes the many and di­verse Car­ni­val com­mu­ni­ties we serve.

To  that  end,  we  will  re­sume,  in  earnest,  our  stake­hold­er  con­sul­ta­tions  with  all rel­e­vant part­ners, in­clud­ing our Line Min­istry, the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts, to map out our next steps.

We will share more de­tails with the pub­lic in due course.

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