Lucian Carnival International Launch Hailed A Success

The international launch for Saint Lucia’s carnival was held in Miami this past weekend as part of the annual Miami Carnival celebration, during the Columbus Day weekend. Miami carnival is marking 40 years this year and is hailed as the biggest West Indian carnival in North America. On Monday, Minister for Tourism, Investment, Culture, Creative Industry and Information defended the move to stage the international launch for Lucian Carnival in Miami. “Miami carnival is strategically important because of the timing and the appeal of Miami carnival for carnival stakeholders and Saint Lucia had a very solid and powerful grouping that went to Miami carnival, a number of our leading soca artistes were in Miami over the weekend,” Hilaire said. “It has worked well for us over the last three years…right now every other Caribbean country is also going to Miami as well, so it has really evolved as a major activity and certainly an exciting one,” he added. The Minister said that the event has had a positive impact on the number of carnival followers from North America and the diaspora coming to Saint Lucia for carnival. Organisers of last weekend’s launch, spoke of the unique appeal of Lucian soca...