Michelle Loubon

Good food, good cheer and sweet so­ca is flow­ing like wa­ter at all-in­clu­sive fetes. Ul­ti­mate Pro­mo­tions per­son­nel Col­in Sker­ritt and Oral Seifert are of­fer­ing a mar­itime ex­pe­ri­ence. About 700 Car­ni­val lovers can par­ty hearty while on board. They have the added bonus of en­joy­ing the night­time sights and sounds when the ves­sel rounds the curve of the bay. For C2k12, they are stag­ing a cruise-Tri­ni Blues Cruise on board so­ca artiste Iw­er George's Ves­sel-Coral Vi­sion-on Feb­ru­ary 10. As the count­down to the cruise in­ten­si­fies, Seifert said: "Car­ni­val is my pas­sion. I have back­ground in events man­age­ment. I like it. It's a nat­ur­al thing for me. We chose Coral Vi­sion be­cause it is big­ger and of­fers more sta­bil­i­ty. Peo­ple get to par­ty at sea." She al­so ex­plained some of the pro­ceeds would go to­ward as­sist­ing char­i­ties. She said: "We are hop­ing to part­ner with com­mu­ni­ty groups and char­i­ta­ble or­gan­i­sa­tions. We are of­fer­ing $20 dol­lars for tick­ets sold.

"In ad­di­tion, we are of­fer­ing the group that sells the most num­ber of tick­ets some funds. We went around to some com­mu­ni­ty groups, and we ap­proached the PTA." To date, they have con­cre­tised plans to as­sist San­gre Grande (Dis­trict) Scout Group with rais­ing funds to­wards a camp­ing trip in Au­gust to Bar­ba­dos. They have com­mit­ted to help­ing Da­nara's Pre­cious Blessed Acad­e­my Pre School pur­chase equip­ment which was stolen.

Sker­ritt play­ing Tri­ni Rev­ellers' Archangel

Mean­while, Sker­ritt is busy prepar­ing his sec­tion Ra­ma­jay, which com­pris­es part of Tri­ni Rev­ellers' pre­sen­ta­tion The Gold­en Years which is ded­i­cat­ed to mas pi­o­neers like Stephen Lee He­ung. They will be on dis­play dur­ing the cruise. He said: "I am por­tray­ing Archangels. It's a cel­e­bra­tion for pi­o­neers like Stephen Lee He­ung. We are hav­ing a sec­tion in Lee He­ung's Par­adise Lost. It is my sec­ond year with Tri­ni Rev­ellers." Sker­ritt said the sexy cos­tumes are ap­peal­ing to the younger mas­quer­aders. He added: "We will be por­tray­ing the cos­tumes on the cruise. Pa­trons will get a chance to view the de­signs. They will get a chance to so­cialise and min­gle be­fore Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day."

Walk with cool­er

Pa­trons can al­so walk with their cool­er and their se­lect al­co­holic drinks. She said: "It keeps the bud­get in­tact. They can bud­get around the amount of mon­ey they want to spend. No glass bot­tles." Sail­ing starts at Cruise Ship Com­plex, Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain.

More in­fo

En­trance fee is $175 if pur­chased be­fore Feb­ru­ary 5

Gen­er­al­ly, tick­ets cost $200.

DJ Richard Sim­ply Smooth will pro­vide mu­sic.

Prizes and give­aways are added at­trac­tions for pa­trons.

For fur­ther in­for­ma­tion, con­tact:

Seifert-467-1556

Richard Ed­mund-356-4706

Col­in Sker­ritt-683-0001