Sascha Wil­son

The min­is­ter said he wished there could be more cre­ativ­i­ty in Car­ni­val cos­tumes in­stead of the usu­al biki­nis and beads."You can­not dis­tin­guish be­tween a Trinida­di­an band and a Brazil­ian band. I wish they would be­come more cre­ative and play the mas that we know to play. Let us go back to por­tray­als," he said. Busi­ness­man Steve Grant, who has been pro­mot­ing the art­form for the past 30 years, agreed it was dy­ing. How­ev­er, he said they were in the process of try­ing to re­vi­talise it. He said com­pe­ti­tions would be held every Fri­day and Sat­ur­day un­til Car­ni­val Tues­day. Sev­er­al peo­ple, young and old, had gath­ered around the gayelle to see the stick fight­ers in ac­tion.