- Designated Drivers
- Steelband All Inclusives (Steel and DJ only)
- More and cleaner toilets
- Large and Medium Bands go to Savannah only on one day (LIVE draw to pick Monday or Tuesday)
- BBF’s (Bikinis, Beads and Feathers) judged in separate category and given smaller prizes than traditional mas (Brazil owns bikini Mas; we own Fancy Indian and Sailors so that’s what we should reward and encourage)
- Special anti-pick pocket squad
- Improved brand merchandising (by best designers contracted by TDC e g. Minshall)
- Huge digital foot print (e g. social media, LIVE streaming)
- Carnival hot-line (24/7/digital and phone access to Carnival info)
- Breathalyser enforcement
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26 July, 2011, 1:46 pm
Agree with everything except #4. No way that after spending all that money to play mas I was going to be satisfied with only crossing the stage on one day.
1 August, 2011, 10:37 pm
it is definitely time we promote steelbands at the big all inclusive fetes. Steelband is dying because we are totally ignoring them during the Carnival season. I would definitely go to an all inclusive with a great steelband playing soca and calypso music.
30 December, 2011, 10:49 am
QRC does it, but it hasn’t been shown to be a major drawing card.
2 August, 2011, 12:22 pm
I think really this is best way to follow that.. Very important points shared with us.. thanks..
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17 August, 2011, 2:54 pm
We also need to hear more than three or four songs all day on Mon and Tues
30 December, 2011, 10:50 am
Change the band you play with. I hear loads of different songs, and also nice back in times sets from time to time on Tuesday. (Harts)
6 March, 2012, 6:50 pm
1. All Jouvert bands should go to South Quay to be judged, they make havoc in St. Clair, Woodbrook, Audrey Jeffers H/way and in front of Movietowne. Stop shifting the origins of T & T Carnival.
2. It should also be mandatory, that steel-pan groups accompany ALL Bands, especially the ones with various music trucks on Monday and Tuesday.
Steelband music is one of the major contributor to Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. In recent times, our Carnival is being compared to Rio Carnival. This shouldn’t be.
3. Make the human resources available locally to design and assemble costumes. Targeting various educational institutions, through the Ministry of Education and Tertiary Education to make mas making compulsory. We don’t need the made in China costumes.
4. Expand the Regional Carnivals around Trinidad and Tobago.
5. Implement a “Food Village”, displaying local cuisine. Vendors at the Food Village can cater to the mas bands in advance. For example, if one vendor sells 100 lunches per day for both days, everyone can be smiling at the bank on Ash Wednesday. Why are the monies going to one sector of the society?
The origin of Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival, as re-enacted every Carnival Friday @ 5am at Piccadilly on Greens, was a display of freedom. The European Carnival has been incorporated with the African way of celebration, bringing the Carnival to the streets.
The planning of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival should be a daily routine.