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With an es­ti­mat­ed 100,000 peo­ple set to lose work re­lat­ed to Car­ni­val events, en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try stake­hold­ers are ques­tion­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to ban the use of Ude­cott-op­er­at­ed venues for Car­ni­val fetes. They called the move a “death knell” to the coun­try’s en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try.

In a press re­lease en­ti­tled Death of Car­ni­val En­ter­tain­ment and Tourism, Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA), Robert Thomp­son, asked, “What is the re­al in­tent be­hind this move?”

The as­so­ci­a­tion con­demned the ban, de­scrib­ing it as “a de­struc­tive and short-sight­ed de­ci­sion that threat­ens to crip­ple the coun­try’s tourism and en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­tries.”