?While some Car­ni­val pro­mot­ers and band­lead­ers re­main op­posed to the stag­ing of the up­com­ing Be­y­once� con­cert in Trinidad, one band is em­brac­ing the event, stat­ing that it is a good op­por­tu­ni­ty for T&T to show­case its cul­ture to the world. Medi­um-sized Car­ni­val band, D Krewe, said it would pur­chase 500 gen­er­al ad­mis­sion tick­ets for the con­cert and dis­trib­ute them to the band's mas­quer­aders. Lynn Patrice Ochoa, D Krewe's pub­lic re­la­tions/mar­ket­ing ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, said the band jumped at the op­por­tu­ni­ty, as it want­ed to max­imise the en­ter­tain­ment val­ue of its ser­vice to mas­quer­aders.

"We sup­port any­thing that will bring more vis­i­tors to T&T for the Car­ni­val, be­cause we see this as a great op­por­tu­ni­ty to ex­pose what we have to of­fer on an even larg­er scale," she said, in a tele­phone in­ter­view, yes­ter­day. "We al­so recog­nise and have lis­tened to our mas­quer­aders and sup­port­ers, who would like the chance to see Be­y­once� in con­cert, and we jumped at the chance to ex­tend our cus­tomer ex­pe­ri­ence be­yond the Car­ni­val sea­son." (CM)