To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

Hun­dreds of mas­quer­aders who feared they would miss To­ba­go Car­ni­val be­cause they could not se­cure flights to the is­land may now get to take part in the fes­ti­val, as Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine an­nounced that Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has added more than 3,000 seats to the do­mes­tic air­bridge.

Band­lead­ers had raised an alarm over the past week, say­ing their mas­quer­aders had paid for cos­tumes but had no flights to To­ba­go. Many warned of se­vere fi­nan­cial fall­out, in­clud­ing pos­si­ble re­funds and can­cel­la­tions if the is­sue was not re­solved be­fore the Oc­to­ber 25–27 cel­e­bra­tions.