Revellers bear heat to ‘dazzle’ in August Monday 2023 parade
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The jam-packed parade, which began at around 1:00 PM on Monday, August 7, 2023, saw dazzling entries ranging from the troupes, floats, trucks, vehicles, individual entries, and more moving to the sound of soca and other rhythms through the streets of Road Town.
In the mid-day heat with with thousands of revealers ready to gyrate through the streets of Road town, the parade left Road Reef and proceeded Waterfront Drive, making its way to the Irene Penn-O’Neal Festiville to complete the one-and-a-half-mile-long route.
Residents, tourists, and families who lined the parade route witnessed a number of floats and bands including a stand-out float that featured a giant whale on a truck bed.
Earlier on August Monday morning August 7, 2023, thousands of revellers took to the streets with paint, powder and music for the usual wet fete & J'ouvert known as the Emancipation Rise and Shine Tramp.
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31 Responses to “Revellers bear heat to ‘dazzle’ in August Monday 2023 parade”
When we had festival years ago, no self-respecting women would not dare show their bodies like that. Now all of their bosses, coworkers, parents, students, and churchgoers know how they really are. I was disturbed and embarrassed. BVI, please don't allow these vulgar costumes in our parades anymore. Participants should be made to show the costumes they want to wear, and it should be approved or disapproved by the committee, period! If the committee cannot make wise choices, then get a new committee. Bring back the RESPECT we used to have and stop FORCE FEEDING our children with this poison. Case closed!
I also was concerned about the lyrics of a song being played by the same band. I heard the words (murder them). I was scared that there may be an indication that murder is not a crime and it was an incentive for persons to freely go out and kill someone. Things have got to change in this little country of ours.
I find carnival to be very distasteful
Disgraceful and very much degrading and these women are very eager to get out and be 99 percent naked looking attention
Most of them going to get plastic surgery to show off their fake body again jus to get noticed
When all these men going to view them
As s@$ objects
Ive never partake in the parades Jouvert nor am
I a spectator in that
Sorry my body is for for my husband to view and I consider my body my temple and keep it very protected from d eyes
Even the roosters appear to be disgusted with the *exy chickens chasing behind them now.
We need to rethink our festival and if we can't do any better than the BVI PORNO that is shamelessly being practiced on our streets in those Rise and Shine Tramps/Jouverts and Festival Parades, then let's forget about our emancipation celebration. PERIOD!!! It is a farce and we need to draw our brakes NOW!!
I add my voice and appeaĺ to the Festival and Fairs Committee, let us as a Virgin Islands people not go down in history as a people who dishonoured our ancestors by placing no value on the blood they shed, rape they endured, and inhumane treatment suffered!
May our ancestors as well as the God who was their strong tower, forgive us.
A native Virgin Islander to the Nth generation