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Friday, July 11, 2025

Car­ni­val 2014

Poor QPS turnout for kiddies mas

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De­spite ad­ver­tis­ing and mar­ket­ing the 2014 T&T Red Cross So­ci­ety Chil­dren's Car­ni­val, the com­pe­ti­tion did not at­tract a sell­out crowd at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

Ad­dress­ing the turnout yes­ter­day, so­ci­ety mem­ber Vin­dra Amar said the event is sup­port­ed by the same pa­trons each year, as they have not been see­ing new faces in the Grand Stand. She said she be­lieves the so­ci­ety needs to do more mar­ket­ing in 2015 to bring out a new batch of spec­ta­tors.

Amar dis­agreed, how­ev­er, that chil­dren's Car­ni­val was dy­ing, since there were 304 en­trants vy­ing for top prizes yes­ter­day.

Amar could not say how many of the 2,000 adult and 1,200 chil­dren tick­ets print­ed for the event were sold, but ad­mit­ted that the turnout was "dis­cour­ag­ing" be­cause they had mar­ket­ed and ad­ver­tised it for sev­er­al weeks.

She said tire­less hours were al­so spent or­gan­is­ing the com­pe­ti­tion to make it one of the clean­est chil­dren's event for the sea­son.

"We did not se­lect any wine and jam ca­lyp­soes for the chil­dren to pa­rade in their cos­tumes on stage."

Spon­sor­ship too, Amar said, was al­so dwin­dling. She ap­pealed to the Gov­ern­ment to part­ner with them.

The mon­ey raised from tick­et sales, Amar said, will go to­wards the pur­chase of 14,000 so­lar lanterns for homes with­out elec­tric­i­ty. This will al­low chil­dren to study in a more com­fort­able en­vi­ron­ment, Amar said.

The com­pe­ti­tion fea­tured sev­er­al cat­e­gories, from babes-in-arms up to large bands. A Ju­nior Car­ni­val King and Queen were al­so crowned.


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