'Every carnival is Trinidad Carnival' | Trinidad Express Newspaper | Sunday Mix

"We always respect the territory and its people by partnering with someone that already has something set up there. We will not seek to reap rewards in another person's country without having them be a part of the effort and whatever benefits result. We may be at Miami carnival in October and Japan before that. Once we have a good partner on the ground we will move into other destinations later on," Lewis said.

Harts Mas Band purchasing manager, Annalise Hee Chung said the band has produced mas for carnivals in Jamaica, Antigua, Grenada and St Lucia before, but decided to sit these out this year and focus on Carnival 2011. She also said the mas camp needed renovations and updating and had they worked on foreign carnivals this would not have been done properly.

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