Come Saturday August 12, Union Island is expected to host its first ever car show. The event, dubbed Auto Show, is being organized by Kennoll Wilson of Outkast Auto Services (the only car wash on the island), and Carlus Allicott of Boney Man Garage. Explaining the initiative, Wilson said the island has never had a car show and they thought it was a good idea to host such an event, …
Like any great Son of de Soil, de Nay-shun continues to salute Nigel Greaves who last Sunday, in his own Calm, Cool and Calculative style, took ah quick and Peaceful exit from “Mother Earth”. As ole people would say “so he live, so he die!” Vin-sin-shuns from all walks ah life, de Ole, de Young; de Rich de Poor; Friends and Frenemy, Social Media was hot wid an outpouring of …
So the first (and hopefully only) Covid carnival has ended. We must applaud the carnival-makers, including the Minister of Culture, for their commitment to staging Vincy Mas 2022. It happened as planned and it was not an easy undertaking. Hard work was put in and satisfactory results were achieved. Quite a few persons stayed away from the shows at Victoria Park. A cursory assessment suggests that carnival revellers did not …
Ah take pride in two aspects of our Vincy Culture, i.e. Christmas and Carnival, and would have served foh many years on Carnival and Nine Mornings Committees. Ah still love me carnival. Ah remember my Grand-mother, ah real Born Again Christian, uses to question me: “what is dis about you and carnival?” and ah uses to tell her dat ah was ah Carnival Baby, conceived in February during de Carnival …
After two and ah half years of Sabbatical without any renumeration, com-pen-say-shun,remittance, subsistence or whatever to de components of Vincy Mas, de Festival, or what’s left of it, will now attempt to shake off de ashes, fine tune de instruments, restore Pan after de Pan-dem-ache; revisit Carlton “CP” Hall’s masterpiece “Kaisonians will sing,” and ‘come hell or high water’, Vin-sin-shuns will play Mas wid or wid-out wearing Mas, Jab or …