Cast members Melody (centre) and Mas look at a song closely monitored by, The Buck of Mas and Melody at SAPA recently.

Innis Francis

A masquerader from the section, Sting, designed by Christian Chow Chung, parades during the Yuma Vive Band Launch Ferocious Carnival at NAPA, Port-of-Spain.

Anisto Alves

Professor Clarance Edmeade, at right, speaks to the honourees assembled on stage and the gathering at The Katz Restaurant and Lounge in North Miami. They include Senator Dwight Bullard, left, Miami Carnival chair, Joan Hinkson-Justin, Aifos Agency director Asa P Sealy, Miami radio personality Cleve Osborne and Miami Dade College political science student Isaiah Bell.

Nigel Telesford