Every year around this time, hundreds of Bahamians begin preparing for the Boxing Day and New Year’s Day Junkanoo Parades. This means hours-long bouts in the shacks. While the building process requires movement and some heavy lifting, the pasting and decorating side of the Junkanoo production is mostly sedentary. Individuals can spend hours on end working
Roots Junkanoo Group Leader Wendell Francis today called for the abolition of the judging system for the Boxing Day and New Year’s Day Junkanoo parades and suggested a new judging system include international judges. “The executive steering board of Roots Junkanoo Group suggests the abolition of the present judging system in favor of a more
After experiencing a crushing defeat with a fifth-place finish at the 2022 Boxing Day Junkanoo parade, former prime minister and member of the Shell Saxons Superstars Dr. Hubert Minnis said yesterday that his group will return as “warriors”. “Wait for us again, the Saxons, this week,” said Minnis regarding the Saxons’ return to Bay Street
The presents have been unwrapped, the Christmas Day meal is already a memory, and the Boxing Day Junkanoo parade in its return to Bay Street in a pandemic era is in the history books – so, for most people, as far as they’re concerned, Christmas is over. Their focus has now turned to preparing for
One Family’s depiction of the Dora Milaje warriors, an all-female special force which protected the fictional country of Wakanda in the “Black Panther” film, appears to be emerging as an enduring image of the 2022 Boxing Day Junkanoo Parade. A photo of the bald-headed, serious-faced and green-lipped One Family choreographed dancers lined up on the