Much like entertainment, charities have been hard hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with many unable to host fundraising activities.
Following the announcement of dates for Crop Over 2022, the Rotary Club of Barbados South has stepped up to
Public Service Announcement: Check on your Trininadian friends. Check on all of your Caribbean friends. They re not OK. Because for perhaps the first time in Caribbean history, that time of year has rolled around and the unthinkable has become real: Trinidad Carnival. Is. Cancelled.
To understand the appalling gravitas of this situation, try to imagine the cancellation of, say, Christmas. Or, broadly speaking, the event holy public ritual, really that motivates tens of thousands of people around the world to keep on keeping on amid the daily drudgeries and mundane indignities of this nine-to-five life, because they know that come February, there shall be an ecstatic release: They will be covered in oil or paint, drink in hand, shimmering costume on deck, dancing through the streets of Port of Spain and giving thanks for a life that is a grand gift wholly drugged by music, dance, joy and love.