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Sales slow, city vendors complain
2/17/2010
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Sales were slow this Carnival, a cadre of vendors in Port of Spain complained yesterday.
’This year was real hard,’ said 31-year-old Donna, who said Carnival 2010 was her third year on the road as a vendor.
Donna, who did not want to give her surname, was selling an array of goods, including soft drinks, snacks, lollies and juices.
’The all-inclusive bands getting bigger and our sales getting smaller. What can I say, Carnival will soon have no place for small vendors,’ she added.
While many spectators said Carnival 2010 was in fact smaller and calmer than previous years, Mayor of Port of Spain, Murchison Brown, told the media on Carnival Monday that he saw no signs of a shrinking Carnival.
One or two of the patrons whom the Express spoke with yesterday, however, said they felt the lack of the stage at the Queen’s Park Savannah was taking its toll on the celebrations in terms of numbers.
’That was the climax, the velodrome, now there is no real big stage for the masqueraders and people seem to be losing interest,’ said one man, who said he comes from Tobago to see the spectacle in downtown Port of Spain every year.
Several masqueraders said they enjoyed the smaller crowd for Carnival 2010, however, as it gave them more room to ’palance’.
There were also no major incidents of crime reported near the Savannah judging point in Port of Spain yesterday.
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