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The festive air in Queen’s Park on Christmas morning this year overshadowed the gloom of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With a mere handful of spectators positioned around the bandstand at the beginning, the Royal Barbados Police Force Band, under the baton of director Andrew Lynch, struck up promptly at 7 a.m. and the strains of evergreen Christmas music began wafting through the air.
Though the number of park-goers did not swell to the usual hundreds as the morning went on, and there was not the traditional parade of hats and fashion, or the heavy promenading along the main thoroughfare, patrons were still upbeat, dancing and swaying and singing along to their favourite selections.
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