The bigger the vaccination numbers the bigger the carnival, says Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, who during a call to the Issues at Hand program here on WEFM, announced that St. Vincent and the Grenadines will have carnival this year.
“To have a significant event, we will have to get the vaccination rates up to as much as 70 percent among the eligible population”.
We will have to use February and March to ramp up the numbers; I think we can do it”.
“I hope we have a full-fledge carnival, but I must first pass the hurdle, and that is to get the numbers up.” The Prime Minister said.
Prime Minister Gonsalves spoke about the economic benefits of the Carnival following two years of the show being cancelled due to COVID-19.
Gonsalves said that by April, the government would be able to say if the festival would be a large-scaled event or a scaled down version.
