Oh for some good Carnival designs!

The Editor: I have no problem with women wanting to play mas in a bikini with beads and paint and feathers or whatever on their heads. This is a democracy and everyone apparently has the right to dress or undress to suit themselves. But don't insult my intelligence by talking to me about "design". On Tuesday afternoon I was watching TTT when the band Poison crossed the stage. Everyone was having "a ball" as the commentator kept reminding us.

Good for them I thought as section after section flew past the cameras in their bikinis. What amazed me, however, was the spokesperson of the band who kept repeating that "this section was designed by Miss A or the next section was designed by Mr B". What absolute nonsense.  There was no design of any kind in the band. None whatsoever. Every section was identical except for colour or an additional feather here or more beads there. I cringed when I watched a section with large red feathers sticking out of people's heads and heard this woman state without the least embarrassment that the section was "Cockcomb". Who could guess? Not me. How great it would be so see a really designed "cockcomb" as a headpiece!

As I stated earlier I have no problem whatsoever with people playing their mas in the nude if that is what Carnival means to them, but don't insult my intelligence by telling me who "designed" the sections all of which were the same boring stuff. The same could easily apply to almost all the bands that paraded at the Savannah on Tuesday except that unlike Poison they knew better than to take the TTT microphone and tell us such rubbish about who "designed" what. Oh for some good Carnival designs!

J L Martin
Maracas Valley