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Win­ston “Gyp­sy” Pe­ters has of­fi­cial­ly ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion as chair­man of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC).

His ex­it marks yet an­oth­er de­par­ture amid a wave of res­ig­na­tions with­in state-run cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tions.

The move comes in the wake of sig­nif­i­cant changes at the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, most no­tably the re­cent ap­point­ment of Michelle Ben­jamin as the new min­is­ter.