Advertise With Us
About Us
Listen
Watch

Login

/

Subscribe

Home

News

Carnival

Business

Sports

E-Paper

Features

Opinion

Traffic Cameras

Life

Classifieds

Death Notices

Community

Real Estate

About Us

Contact Us

Home
News
Carnival
Sports
E-paper
Business
Classifieds
Other
Death Notices
Traffic Cameras
Covid-19
Features
Opinion
Games
Subscriptions
Real Estate

Thousands revel in Tobago J'Ouvert

by

#meta[ag-author]
Shastri Boodan
20221029162924
20221029
Members of Spice Mas 2023 Oil Devils take part in the J'Ouvert celebrations in Tobago yesterday.

Members of Spice Mas 2023 Oil Devils take part in the J'Ouvert celebrations in Tobago yesterday.

SHASTRI BOODAN

Shas­tri Boodan

Thou­sands packed the streets of Bon Ac­cord and Crown Point on Sat­ur­day for the J'Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tion at To­ba­go's Car­ni­val. The event took the form of a pa­rade that start­ed in the vicin­i­ty of the Bon Ac­cord Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School and head­ed straight for Crown Point. There were no judg­ing points.

Of­fi­cials from the Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee were not on hand to move the bands along the street. How­ev­er, the po­lice made sure that the bands kept pace. There was al­so an ab­sence of portable pub­lic toi­lets for mem­bers of the pub­lic to use. Mas­quer­aders, how­ev­er, had the con­ve­nience of us­ing mo­bile toi­lets pro­vid­ed by their bands.

Bands in­clud­ing Fog An­gels, Mon­key Busi­ness, Oil Dev­ils, Dut­ty the World, MIL, Dirty Medics and Break Free par­tic­i­pat­ed. Rev­ellers from Trinidad who made the trip said they were hap­py to en­joy the fete­ing.

Act­ing Su­per­in­ten­dent Kirk, who led a large con­tin­gent of po­lice of­fi­cers, said the J'Ou­vert start­ed a lit­tle late and up to 9 am no in­ci­dents had been re­port­ed. "We want this to be the safest part of To­ba­go Car­ni­val," he said.

Media personality Ashleia Baksh, left, and TBC Radio's Slam 100.5 Fm Host Jynnyn Edwards have fun during Tobago Carnival J'Ouvert celebration at Bon Accord and Crown Point yesterday.

Media personality Ashleia Baksh, left, and TBC Radio's Slam 100.5 Fm Host Jynnyn Edwards have fun during Tobago Carnival J'Ouvert celebration at Bon Accord and Crown Point yesterday.

SHASTRI BOODAN

Tourism Min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell, mean­while, said he was elat­ed that tourism stake­hold­ers saw some ben­e­fit from To­ba­go Car­ni­val. Mitchell spoke with Guardian Me­dia on Fri­day Night at the Pan and Pow­der event at the Wa­ter­front Old Mil­ford Road, Scar­bor­ough.

He said, "We hope that this can build, and im­prove in years to come. I have not seen so much ac­tiv­i­ty on the is­land of To­ba­go for such a long time, and I am ex­treme­ly hap­py. I am hap­py for the tourism prod­uct. I am hap­py for all the tourism stake­hold­ers, this must be an in­cred­i­ble boost for all of them."

Mitchell said that come 2023, the next To­ba­go Car­ni­val should be a sig­nif­i­cant fix­ture on the Car­ni­val cir­cuit.

The event start­ed around 7 pm, two hours af­ter it was ad­ver­tised to start. Pa­trons from Trinidad were con­fused as to what would be the for­mat of the event. The show start­ed with sev­er­al small bands per­form­ing while larg­er bands pa­rad­ed along Mil­ford Road from the west to down­town Scar­bor­ough in the east.

Revellers from the band Outopia enjoy themselves at the Tobago Carnival J'ouvert celebration.

Revellers from the band Outopia enjoy themselves at the Tobago Carnival J'ouvert celebration.

SHASTRI BOODAN


Click HERE to Login

Want FREE access to all our content? Sign up HERE!

Tagged in:

TobagoCarnival


Responses

Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored

Trending

Acting CoP suspends officer in traffic warden viral video
Harewood-Christopher in pole position for CoP job
Cop captured in social media row with Traffic Warden suspended
Nine Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder accused to receive $20M from State
State must pay $20m for failed Naipaul-Coolman case
President sends Erla Christopher's name to Parliament for CoP nominee debate
Highest-ranking name for new Police Commissioner delivered to President
Griffith silent on Kamla’s call for unity: PDP, Duke, some ex-UNC MPs not interested
Piarco records the lowest temperature in January in 10 years
US resident held with ammo in Piarco airport
Today's
Guardian
View
Subscribe

Publications

Hungry Ghosts

Hungry Ghosts

Hungry Ghosts

Hungry Ghosts

Pain, power and poison...a review of Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein

20230126132207
2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

Adrian Pope

2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

Adrian Pope

2022 TS Eliot poetry prize winner memorialises 'charismatic' father

20230126141654

Numbness in your feet?

20230123072450

Your walking gear matters!

20230116101944
Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

News

Business

Sports

Life

Opinion

Tobago Today

Classifieds

Death Notices

Subscriptions

Real Estate

Categories

News
Business
Sports
Features
Opinion
Traffic Cameras
Death Notices

INFORMATION

About Us
Contact Us
Advertise With Us
Privacy Policy
Subscriptions
Terms of Services

Digital Media

The Big Board Company.
Real Estate
Classifieds

TELEVISION

CNC3 Television

RADIO

951 Remix
Sangeet 106.1 FM
Sky 99.5FM
Slam 100.5 FM
Vibe CT 105 FM
Mix 90.1 FM (Guyana)
Freedom 106.5 FM

About Us

Guardian Media is the premier provider of multimedia solutions and authoritative insight on news, politics, business, finance, sports, and current affairs. Our brand portfolio includes CNC3, Guardian, TBC Radio Network and The Big Board Company.

Contact us

Send us an e-mail here or call us at +1-(868)-225-4465

Follow us