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Carnival 2026 in San Fernando will go ahead without a competition after the San Fernando Carnival Committee announced it cannot afford to pay prizes due to a $200,000 shortfall from its 2025 allocation.
The decision was made at a stakeholder meeting at City Hall on Monday, where Mayor and committee chairman Robert Parris explained that the committee had been in discussions with the National Carnival Commission (NCC) since last September. At that time, the NCC had not yet approved a Carnival budget, preventing the committee from hosting a launch.
“We waited until we got an approval, and the approval was $700,000. That is what the phone call was to our coordinator, and when we went up last week to collect the first cheque, which is for the infrastructure, the letter stated $500,000,” Parris said.
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