CARNIVAL SABOTAGE

The Minority leader is accusing the  THA administration of sabotaging the just concluded Tobago national Carnival.   Elizabeth Williams reports.

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00:00So, yes, Ms. Williams, it is a deliberate act of sabotage by those who are not interested

00:08in having two carnivals.

00:10Mr. Morris said it appears to be a deliberate act to kill Tobago's national carnival.

00:16He spoke during the minorities' media briefing in Scarborough.

00:20It is a clear deliberate action to force people by watering it down for you to come to the

00:26natural conclusion that well, we perhaps shouldn't have it.

00:29They want to kill the carnival because they are not about unity, they are not about nationality.

00:37And nothing is wrong with us being, having a Tobago-centric view because I would have

00:42advocated for a Tobago alternative carnival and we now have it, but we can have both.

00:49Morris said Culture Secretary Tashia Boris was absent from Tobago's carnival and does

00:55not deserve the position she holds.

00:57But the secretary who should be on the ground giving support was nowhere to be found and

01:04I am saying if any secretary would abdicate their duty like that, that secretary does

01:09not deserve their position.

01:11According to Assistant Secretary Culture Niall George, $5.8 million was allocated for Tobago's

01:18national carnival.

01:20Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.