A day Haiti can be proud of – Carifesta XII officially opens

By Jairo Rodrigues On In Guyana News |
Guyana Masqueraders on the streets of Port-au-Prince wending their way to the opening Ceremony. Photo courtesy to the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport)
Guyana Masqueraders on the streets of Port-au-Prince wending their way to the opening Ceremony. Photo courtesy to the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport)

 

By Jairo Rodrigues

in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

 

The streets of Port-au-Prince were crowded on Friday with thousands – yes, thousands of Haitians lining the avenues and roads for the official start of Carifesta XII.

Excited eyes gazed at the foreigners –twenty-one nations registered, all wearing costumes. Barbados was in a Kadooment theme; Haiti in their pride and glory; Trinidad in their bright red, black and white with make-up and costumes; and Guyana in its masquerade theme full with band and dancers.