{"id":15529,"date":"2018-05-13T21:19:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T01:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=15529"},"modified":"2018-05-13T21:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T01:19:34","slug":"only-50k-for-barbuda-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/only-50k-for-barbuda-carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 50k for Barbuda carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government has drastically cut its financial support for the annual Caribana celebrations on Barbuda.<\/p>

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The celebrations are held on Whit Monday weekend each year.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Gaston Browne says\u00a0people who are saying that the money should go to rebuilding Barbuda are “absolutely right.”<\/p>

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“Last year, we spent half a million dollars for Caribana including one or two cars as prizes,” Browne said.<\/p>

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“We took a position this year based on the circumstances in Barbuda we only making 50 thousand dollars available to them,” Browne added.<\/p>\n

He is urging the Caribana organisers to find alternate ways needed to raise funds for the carnival.<\/p>

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“If they want to have a bigger celebration then they have to raise additional funds from the private sector and in the circumstances, I think that ins the reasonable thing to do.<\/p>\n

“If we have a million dollars to spend we would be better off funding some homes than to fund people frolicking and having fun.”<\/p>

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