March 15, 2024
PEOPLE participating in Carnival in 2023.
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Carnival participation ‘will be up by 50 percent’
BAHAMAS Carnival Band Owners Association chairman Dario Tirelli expects participation in this year’s event to jump nearly 50 percent over the past two years — but he’s sharply criticising the Ministry of Tourism for failing to support the festival through funding or marketing.
FRONT PORCH: Failed promise and wasted opportunity
A story in this journal in March of this year reported: “Introduced with great fanfare in 2015, Carnival in The Bahamas was meant to establish itself as a staple on the country’s cultural calendar. Now, opinions on its future are split, with many seeing it as a fading experiment that never fully took root in Bahamian culture.”
Carnival ‘too big an event for govt not to get involved’, says Tirelli
BAHAMAS Carnival Band Owners Association chairman Dario Tirelli said he is disappointed that the Ministry of Tourism is not helping to subsidise Bahamas Carnival, arguing that the festival needs at least $250,000 in government support annually.
Split feelings on the future of Carnival
INTRODUCED with great fanfare in 2015, Carnival in The Bahamas was meant to establish itself as a staple on the country’s cultural calendar.
‘This year’s carnival will look less like Junkanoo’
COSTUMES for Bahamas Carnival 2024 will look less like the Junkanoo-themed costumes of years past, according to Bahamas Carnival Association (BCA) president Dario Tirelli.
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