Sec­re­tary of Tourism, Cul­ture, An­tiq­ui­ties & Trans­porta­tion Tashia Bur­ris has de­fend­ed the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly's (THA) de­ci­sion to seek out help from Grena­da and not Trinidad for host­ing its first Car­ni­val. 

Bur­ris spoke to­day at the THA's Mon­day Man­date news con­fer­ence. 
"There are those in the space who felt that To­ba­go should have gone to Trinidad first but the re­al­i­ty is be­fore we were joined to Trinidad we were joined to Grena­da," she said. 

Bur­ris added that they are now re-es­tab­lish­ing the re­la­tion­ships that once ex­ist­ed. 
"When we looked at what may look sim­i­lar to what we are try­ing to achieve it was not nec­es­sar­i­ly the Trinidad mod­el," she added. 
She said that when they looked at size and scope, Grena­da was the clos­est neigh­bour to what they felt they could achieve in the first year