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Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don is con­demn­ing mas band Tribe for dis­trib­ut­ing sex toys in good­ie bags to its fe­male mas­quer­aders. And he says if Car­ni­val con­tin­ues to slip in­to this type of “he­do­nism,” the Gov­ern­ment should step in and reg­u­late, par­tic­u­lar­ly Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day, if mas bands fail to do so.

Arch­bish­op Gor­don made the com­ment dur­ing his homi­ly on Sun­day, say­ing while he loves Car­ni­val and many as­pects of it, is­su­ing sex toys was go­ing too far.

“We have to stop. We have to di­al it back, and we have to bring Car­ni­val back to what it has al­ways been, a cel­e­bra­tion of the life, vi­tal­i­ty, and cre­ativ­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go. What­ev­er hap­pens in Trinidad Car­ni­val goes to Bar­ba­dos, it goes to Grena­da, it goes to St Vin­cent, it goes all up the is­lands. We can­not be the peo­ple ex­port­ing this lev­el. What we now reach there is he­do­nism. That’s where we are. We have to di­al this back.”