Bmobile sponsors Ramleela groups after cuts to Divali Nagar

Four Ram­leela or­gan­i­sa­tions have re­ceived spon­sor­ship of more than $40,000 each from bmo­bile, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to in­crease sup­port for com­mu­ni­ty-based cul­tur­al ac­tiv­i­ties.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath an­nounced the ini­tia­tive on Sun­day dur­ing a vis­it to the Pierre Road Ram­leela cel­e­bra­tions in Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas.

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Padarath told Guardian Me­dia that each of the four or­gan­i­sa­tions had re­ceived more than $40,000 in spon­sor­ship from bmo­bile, the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions brand of state-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT).