Ultimate Soca Champion CEO Jerome "Rome" Precilla has confirmed that the competition will not be happening this year.

In WhatsApp responses on January 22, he told Newsday, “We would have reached out to the minister of Culture and Community Development and the National Carnival Commission (NCC), requesting meetings.

“We knew the economic climate was not the same and we offered to work with them in terms of a new budget and working with whatever they could afford to help to keep the project alive based on the successes we would have had last year.”