The Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment (MC­CD) has con­firmed a spe­cial per­for­mance for con­tes­tants af­fect­ed by the smoke bomb in­ci­dent at the La Reine Rive Self-Ex­pres­sion and Tal­ent Fi­nals of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Best Vil­lage Tro­phy Com­pe­ti­tion last Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 6, 2025, at SAPA.

Five con­tes­tants who were un­able to per­form will take the stage to­mor­row, Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 13, at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA), from 7:30 p.m. Ad­mis­sion is free and open to the pub­lic.

Mean­while, the Le Gran Z’Af­faire Fi­nals have been post­poned to a date to be an­nounced, en­sur­ing the in­tegri­ty of the com­pe­ti­tion is main­tained. In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent con­tin­ue, with con­sul­ta­tions in­volv­ing ad­ju­di­ca­tors to en­sure trans­paren­cy, ac­count­abil­i­ty, and fair­ness.

Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin said: “The show must go on. The Best Vil­lage Com­pe­ti­tion re­flects the re­silience, cre­ativ­i­ty and spir­it of our peo­ple. We en­cour­age cit­i­zens to sup­port these con­tes­tants as they con­tin­ue to shine on be­half of Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

The Min­istry thanked all stake­hold­ers and the pub­lic for their pa­tience and sup­port.