TT Carnival and Newsday are the best

YOUNG AND RESTLESS actress Victoria Rowell (Drucilla Winters) said after one day of playing mas on the streets of Port-of-Spain, she feels like a Trini and her experience in Trinidad and Tobago thus far has been “phenomenal”.

In an interview with Newsday during a special function hosted at the Hilton Trinidad on Carnival Monday night by Hilton General Manager Ali Khan, Rowell said: “ I have been having a phenomenal time. I danced. Previous to my acting career, I danced with American Ballet Theatre in New York. So I got to put all that training into playing today. I danced for seven hours, so the stamina came in handy.” The actress said one of her more memorable Carnival experiences was dancing atop a sound truck earlier in the day with soca artistes Destra Garcia and Machel Montano. Outside of Carnival activities, Rowell said she has visited places such as the Abbey at Mount St Benedict and will go to Tobago after Carnival Tuesday to see the sights and relax.

Asked if she would return for Carnival 2004, Rowell replied: “I hope I can bring other cast members of the Young and the Restless with me. I will have very good words to share with Sony International as well as CBS.” She added that Trinidad and Tobago Carnival was “the ultimate way to interact with the public” and expressed her heartfelt thanks to Douglas Gordon and Michelle Khan of Island Events.  Rowell played in the Desert Rose section of  Poison. The Y&R actress was also very impressed with the local newspapers, particularly Newsday. “I read it on the plane, on BWIA. I was very impressed by the diversity in the paper. I read about fine arts, AIDS in Tobago, Carnival, the community at large and I was quite impressed. It is not a small town paper at all. It is a very cosmopolitan paper,” Rowell said.