Bavi­ta Gopaulchan

All is set for the first ‘Taste of Car­ni­val’ event which will be held on Feb­ru­ary 4th.

This was an­nounced this morn­ing by Chair­man of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion, Win­ston Gyp­sy Pe­ters, who re­vealed that the event will be held vir­tu­al­ly.

“It's go­ing to start on the 4th with the first Ca­lyp­so show be­ing a vir­tu­al show and af­ter that, the Ca­lyp­so tents are go­ing to be open in full on the 11th," Pe­ters said.

The me­dia was giv­en a tour this morn­ing at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah where pods are be­ing erect­ed for the up­com­ing slate of events. Pe­ters not­ed that the pod-style was sim­i­lar to what was used in Cana­da for events. He al­so con­firmed that the NCC is in dis­cus­sions with sev­er­al pri­vate pro­mot­ers but could not con­firm how far those dis­cus­sions had reached.

The es­ti­mat­ed bud­get for the se­ries of events is be­tween 25 to 30 mil­lion dol­lars.