Dr David E Bratt

So the ver­dict is in: This Car­ni­val was the "safest" (Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty); "com­mer­cialised" (any­one over 60); "bril­liant," "awe­some" or "de great­est" (any for­eign­er in­ter­viewed on TV); "con­fus­ing" (NC­BA band­lead­ers); "dis­grace­ful" (var­i­ous com­men­ta­tors, bish­ops and may­ors); the "fi­nal nail" in the cof­fin of pan (near­ly every pan en­thu­si­ast) and "too frag­ment­ed" (the new Ca­lyp­so Monarch, Chucky). Ob­vi­ous­ly every­one had a great time; it was re­al bac­cha­nal!

Here's what I no­ticed.Dis­abled peo­ple are now par­tic­i­pat­ing more. It's not on­ly the Princess Eliz­a­beth pan side. On Car­ni­val Mon­day, there was a mas­quer­ad­er in a wheel­chair on the Sa­van­nah stage.In the midst of a seething, swarm­ing mass of mis­be­hav­ing women, it was dif­fi­cult to see what he was do­ing but he was there, en­joy­ing it all and seem­ing­ly hav­ing enough space to ma­noeu­vre his wheel­chair. Won­der­ful stuff!A 72-year-old am­putee, Glen­ford Sobers, played pan from his wheel­chair at the Na­tion­al Panora­ma Sin­gle Pan pre­lim­i­nar­ies at Guaracara Park. That must be a world first, a pan-wheel­chair! Mr Sobers, a di­a­bet­ic, lost his right leg last year af­ter hot wa­ter fell on his foot and burnt his toe. In­fec­tion set in, spread and that was that.

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