Gail Alexan­der

Sev­er­al gov­ern­ment min­is­ters are ex­pect­ed to be among mas­quer­aders in the Peo­ple's Band to­day and to­mor­row.The Prime Min­is­ter and some of her team are ex­pect­ed at the Grand Stand view­ing mas on Tues­day, while sev­er­al oth­ers will be in their con­stituen­cies pre­sid­ing over Mon­day mas to­day, ac­cord­ing to the OPM on Thurs­day.COP leader Win­ston Dook­er­an is in COP's J'Ou­vert band to­day play­ing "Cap­tain of the Think­ing Ship"-a pun on Win­ston Pe­ters' 1986 "Sink­ing (PNM) Ship" ca­lyp­so.

The band al­so in­cludes Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor Patrick Wat­son, MP Lin­coln Dou­glas and COP ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers Clyde Weath­er­head and Joseph Toney .Deputy chair­man Ver­non de Li­ma will be over­seas, ac­cord­ing to COP's Port of Spain of­fice. COP's Hulsie Bhag­gan said she will be over­seas as well.Al­so out of the band are COP deputies Roberts May­ers and Wendy Lee Yuen, the lat­ter play­ing Ari­ma J'Ou­vert.Min­is­ter Win­ston Pe­ters will be in the "Peo­ple's Band", of­fi­cials added.

MP Anil Roberts said he may al­so be in that band.Health Min­is­ter Therese Bap­tiste will be in Tri­ni Rev­ellers, a spokesman said.Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Tim Gopeesingh is de­cid­ing be­tween Harts or Yu­ma, he said.OPM aides and UNC ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cials will be in Tribe.Hous­ing Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal, for­goes cos­tume this year. On Mon­day he will be in south Trinidad, he said.To­ba­go West MP Del­mon Bak­er will be in his con­stituen­cy while To­ba­go East MP Ver­nel­la All­eye-Top­pin is on over­seas busi­ness.

Works Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er is in his con­stituen­cy on Mon­day and Tues­day.Op­po­si­tion Leader Kei­th Row­ley has usu­al­ly played sailor mas with All Stars on Tues­day. But PNM 's Ash­ton Ford was un­able to con­firm if Row­ley is do­ing so this year.PNM MP Amery Browne will be in Tribe's "Bliss" along with Lau­rel Leza­ma, Jer­ry Narace, Con­rad Enill and oth­er PNM of­fi­cials, Narace said.For­mer prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning will be in his con­stituen­cy on Mon­day, it was con­firmed.MP Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald will be at Pic­cadil­ly Greens on Tues­day, spec­tat­ing with con­stituents.PNM's Colm Im­bert said he would be in his seat and "on the road."Deputy House Speak­er Fuad Khan will be over­seas, he con­firmed.