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Band­lead­ers praised the Ch­agua­nas Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee for its de­ci­sion to erect a stage for this year’s cel­e­bra­tions.

This an­nounce­ment came dur­ing J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Flavio Goodrich, the leader of Red Army J’Ou­vert, stopped in the mid­dle of his band’s pre­sen­ta­tion to thank CCC chair­man Melis­sa Jadoo­nanan and the com­mit­tee for bring­ing back the stage af­ter a decade-long drought.