Kevon Felmine

Two men drove off with prizes of a Ford Fi­es­ta and a Nis­san March, a mere two weeks af­ter the stag­ing of the first Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Chut­ney So­ca Monarch Com­pe­ti­tion. One was the win­ner of the com­pe­ti­tion, the oth­er a door prize win­ner. On March 4, the com­mit­tee, un­der Sun Splash Pro­mo­tion and Pru­dent En­ter­pris­es held its prize giv­ing func­tion at the Space La Nou­ba Night Club in La Ro­maine.

Win­ner of the first edi­tion of the show held at Skin­ner Park on Feb­ru­ary 20, Rick Ra­moutar, ac­com­pa­nied by his wife Vanes­sa, an­nounced that he will be back next year to de­fend his ti­tle. Say­ing it was the first ma­jor com­pe­ti­tion that he had won, the Ah Wish I was Sin­gle singer was in high praise for the com­pe­ti­tion's com­mit­tee for bring­ing chut­ney so­ca back to San Fer­nan­do.

Ra­moutar was all smiles as he drove off to his Cou­va home in his new Ford Fi­es­ta. Kaysho Gopaul, a Ch­agua­nas na­tive now res­i­dent in Cana­da won the door prize of the Nis­san March. Among those at­tend­ing were Chris Gar­cia, who place sec­ond with his com­po­si­tion Sun­dar, Dru­patee Ram­goon­ai, Leon Coldero and Nee­shan Prab­hoo. For­mer San Fer­nan­do May­or Ian Ather­ly dubbed the event a suc­cess, say­ing it was one of the short­est time in which artistes were able to re­ceive their prizes af­ter a com­pe­ti­tion. He laud­ed the ef­fort made by the com­mit­tee, as the show was or­gan­ised in just two weeks and an­nounced that next year's com­pe­ti­tion would be big­ger.