Carlis­ton “Ca­lyp­so Kerr” Kerr, the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion’s co­or­di­na­tor for Coun­ty Ca­roni is ap­peal­ing for re­gion­al Car­ni­val bod­ies to re­ceive full fund­ing to meet their bud­gets to en­sure suc­cess­ful events. He made the plea be­fore the start of Mon­day Night Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions host­ed by the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee.

Kerr said re­gion­al bod­ies in Cen­tral were do­ing an ex­cel­lent job and could have achieved more if they had re­ceived their full bud­get from the NCC.

He said, “The peo­ple in Cen­tral, I think what they ask for is be­cause they re­alise the po­ten­tial that they are deal­ing with. If they set out to do ‘X’ and they get three quar­ters of ‘X’ or half of ‘X,’ they can on­ly do that much. When it’s time to crit­i­cise, every­body may want to crit­i­cise. If they pull off a mag­ic and get every­thing and every­thing goes well, every­body wants to jump on the train, they want to be part of that suc­cess­ful run­ning.”