AS was his strategy on Carnival Monday, Shurwayne Winchester was out on the music trucks gathering support for his Road March contender, "Look De Band Coming." However, Winchester faced stiffer competition on Carnival Tuesday as Destra Garcia ("Bonnie and Clyde") and Machel Montano ("Craziness") ensured that their respective tunes also got some attention...
News Source: Trinidad Express
Even past Road March winner, Fay Ann Lyons, was riding the wave of her popular "Freedom."
From as early as 9.30 a.m. the bands were making their way past the South Quay judging point.
Poison was the largest band to make its rounds with thousands of skimpily clad women wining on anything from police officers to each other.
Their 2004 presentation, Retromania seemed to be the band of choice for many masqueraders with as many as 8, 000 feathered and sequined revellers jumping up to the top three songs of the festival.
Police presence was heavy especially for the band that touted President George Maxwell Richards, his wife and cabinet ministers as part of their group. As the band neared the judging post, police vehicles, officers on foot and on horseback moved into position. Health Minister John Rahael and Tourism Minister Howard Chin Lee were most visible in their section; not decked in costume but instead choosing plain white outfits.
Port of Spain Mayor Murchison Brown, with megaphone in hand, directed bands into position so that the judges could all have a good view of them.
Poison took almost two hours to clear the venue leaving a huge gap of inactivity in its wake.
A few small bands and minstrels punctuated the slow afternoon period with Trini Revellers' Arabian Nights passing through the venue around 4 p.m.
