The pas­sage of Hur­ri­cane Mil­ton in Flori­da will not im­pact the host­ing of this year's "Mi­a­mi Car­ni­val", as the State re­mains set to in­ject an in­flux of Caribbean cul­ture in­to the South Flori­da re­gion this com­ing week­end.  

A re­lease from the Mi­a­mi Broward One Car­ni­val Host Com­mit­tee on Mon­day at­tempt­ed to re­as­sure the Caribbean/Car­ni­val com­mu­ni­ty, po­ten­tial pa­trons and sup­port­ers that the South Flori­da re­gion, while ex­pe­ri­enc­ing some rain and strong winds, was not ex­pect­ed to take a di­rect hit from the storm.

The Host Com­mit­tee in­sist­ed that "the safe­ty of the com­mu­ni­ty" was their main pri­or­i­ty and as­sured all con­cerned that they would "check dai­ly to get the most up-to-date in­for­ma­tion on the South Flori­da re­gion" and would "ac­tive­ly mon­i­tor all weath­er up­dates" and pro­vide time­ly in­for­ma­tion should any op­er­a­tional changes be­come nec­es­sary.

"Our pri­ma­ry con­cern is the safe­ty and well-be­ing of our at­ten­dees, per­form­ers, and the com­mu­ni­ty," stat­ed the re­lease led by Pub­lic Re­la­tions Di­rec­tor, Yvette N. Har­ris. 

"It has come to our at­ten­tion that false re­ports cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia claim that Mi­a­mi Car­ni­val 2024 has been can­celled. We want to em­pha­size that this in­for­ma­tion is not true. We en­cour­age you to re­ly on our of­fi­cial so­cial me­dia chan­nels and web­site for ac­cu­rate up­dates and in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing all Mi­a­mi Car­ni­val ac­tiv­i­ties."

This year marks the 40th an­niver­sary of Caribbean Car­ni­val fes­tiv­i­ties in the state of Flori­da which ex­ists as the largest Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tion in North Amer­i­ca. 

The Mi­a­mi Broward One Car­ni­val fea­tures sev­er­al weeks of events cul­mi­nat­ing with Panora­ma this Fri­day night, J'ou­vert on Sat­ur­day morn­ing (both held at the Cen­tral Broward Re­gion­al Park in Lauder­hill) and the grand pa­rade and con­cert on Sun­day, Oc­to­ber 13 to be held at the Mi­a­mi-Dade Coun­ty Fair­grounds in Mi­a­mi, Flori­da. 

Host Com­mit­tee Gen­er­al Coun­sel and at­tor­ney-at-law, Mar­lon Hill con­tin­ues to de­liv­er dai­ly up­dates on his In­sta­gram page and al­so spoke with South Flori­da Band Lead­ers As­so­ci­a­tion Chair­man, Nigel Al­fred on Tues­day night with both rep­re­sen­ta­tives ex­tend­ing prayers and best wish­es for those re­sid­ing in North Flori­da and as­sur­ing Car­ni­val lovers that the fore­cast ap­pears pos­i­tive for Mi­a­mi Car­ni­val's 40th-an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions this com­ing week­end.