31/10/2014
Carnival 2015 is on.
This was the pronouncement made by Minister of National Security Gary Griffith during a meeting with Carnival stakeholders yesterday. In response to a question on the state of Carnival, Griffith told bandleaders and corporate sponsors that economics shouldn't determine whether Carnival is cancelled. He is also urging calm in the face of an epidemic that has only been reported in a handful of residents in this hemisphere.
“We cannot go into a situation half pregnant wondering if there will be carnival or not, it will affect Carnival,” he said. “So if there is a situation come closer to Carnival, it will be dealt with at that time. But let’s put an end to this linkage between Carnival and Ebola, it does not exist, Carnival is on.”...The Minister says the government will evaluate whatever threat there is to this country’s citizens closer to the 2015 edition of the “Greatest Show on Earth”. The Minister noted that the same amount of visitors expected for Carnival enter the country at Christmas time also.