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Did anybody see the coverage yet?

Saw it last night on BET JAZZ.

AJ, Gabrielle Union, Meagan Good, Anthony Anderson, Puffys mother Ms Combs - all expressing how much they love the carnival, inviting everybody to come down and partake.

One must give props to Trinidad, the tourism minister or whoever sets this up, for the way they market carnival and broaden it's horizons and spectrum. I have bajan roots but I call a spade when I see it.

This type of marketing continues to be the reason why this carnival is one of the best in the world.

...Trinidad Carnival is kicking everybodyelses @ss in this field.

Trinidad is INVESTING in their culture and getting exposure for their artistes, without them having an artists signed to a major label, THEY ARE SETTING IT UP PROPERLY

And they are not being selfish, they highlighted other artists too, I saw great coverage of Rupee and others

BARBADOS is SLEEPING. THEY HAVE RUPEE AND RIHANNA and are doing NOTHING

THE BTA (Barbados tourism authority) RECENTLY HOSTED A POLO EVENT IN THE HAMPTONS to promote Barbados, with JAY Z present, Rihanna too, Rupee was on tour.

POLO - I'll say no more

WOW!!!

I just had this VERY CONVERSATION in regards to SVG (similar example using Kevin Lyttle and Jamesy P), with a few KNOWN Vincentians visitors to New York, about 3 hours ago.

damn! i missed it

Somehow BET and TIDCO don't seem to be communicating this year because no one has announce the program schedule.

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i couldnt agree with ya no more, ya tellin de truth bout de bajans sleepin, AJ made some visits here already married to a bajan, rihanna and rupee and edwin should be doin de promotions up there in de US, trinidad doin good no wonder barbados crop over does got to tek second place to trini carnival. also, de british prime minister there all de time in BARBADOS (like now vacationin down there in BIM AGAIN) and also attended crop over events last year, he could persuade he fellow people to flock to crop over. all i got to say is barbados headless, it needs a head to get thing work out or esle trinidad will be gettin everythin. crop over showin on BET later this year so we will see the outcome of the big promotion. rupee should get he atlantic people to go to barbados and rihanna she def jam people to go down there too then everybody else will follow.
barbados needs to stop layin back and also it was good to see JAY Z turnin BAJAN.

they are supposed to show Crop over at a later date as well......I thought i heard they were showing Trinidad Carnival, Crop over & Jamaica song fest or something like that, but maybe they just haven't announced da dates as yet. and apparenlty they were quite a few celebs at crop over as well which isn't too bad, but Trini carnival has been big for years, so people are slowly getting involved in crop over.

I saw it on saturday afternoon. I was literally glued to the tv.

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I saw it sometime last week (I should add I have been patiently waiting to see it since I got back from Carnival this year!) and it made me love my country more and it made me feel like I cannot miss Carnival next year atall! I agree, it was a great marketing venture.

BET was in Antigua filming this year's carnival and has been showing their coverage....

more: Antigua's Carnival Full Of Festive Spirit

i was just gonna tell them that...so unnu no bother feel is you alone...and i think is was magan there as well....i heard she did interviews with people like eric clapton and bobby and whitney...

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The next three shows are schedueled to be aired on BET Jazz the following dates September 14th, 17th and Oct 2nd on BET.

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Same thing or continuations?

I believe it is the same show and not a contiuation/series just for the people that missed the shows before.

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Damn, i missed it...will they be showing a re-run?

B'bados and all other countries will all come out, it's just a matter of time...look how long it tekin soca music from we!