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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Smooth Borough Day celebrations in Point Fortin

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20110507
?Manuel Soto, right, of Comunicaciones tries 
to go past the tackle of W Connection's Clyde 
Leon  in their Concacaf Champions League Group 
D clash at Mannie Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella, 
on Thursday night. Comunicaciones won 2�1. 
Photo: Anthony Harris.

?Manuel Soto, right, of Comunicaciones tries to go past the tackle of W Connection's Clyde Leon in their Concacaf Champions League Group D clash at Mannie Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella, on Thursday night. Comunicaciones won 2�1. Photo: Anthony Harris.

From as ear­ly as Fri­day night, thou­sands of peo­ple con­verged on the streets of Point Fortin to par­tic­i­pate in the an­nu­al Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tion which was held yes­ter­day. The fes­ti­val went smooth­ly as on­ly a few mi­nor in­ci­dents of vi­o­lence were re­port­ed. All fights and scuf­fles were quick­ly con­tained by mem­bers of the Po­lice ser­vice who were out in their num­bers. The am­bu­lance ser­vice was quick­ly on hand for all the mi­nor treat­ments that took place dur­ing the event. Con­cerns that loud mu­sic from DJs would dis­turb the steel bands were nipped in the bud as the DJ's switched off their mu­sic while the pan bands passed through the streets. The We Meet/Pan Jam start­ed on Fri­day night from 7 pm in which pan lovers chipped be­side their favourite bands as they pro­ceed­ed to the judg­ing points.

Among the steel bands were, TCL Skif­fle Bunch, Trinidad Val­ley Harps, Point Fortin Tor­na­does, WIT­CO Des­per­a­dos and bpTT All Stars. Af­ter the sounds of steel had passed, there was one of the biggest street par­ties in the coun­try in which mu­sic was pro­vid­ed by DJ's po­si­tioned along the Main Road. The J'Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions be­gan prompt­ly at 4 am with bands com­ing from every cor­ner of the bor­ough with a few guest bands from San Fer­nan­do. There were so­ca artiste per­form­ing on mu­sic trucks, such as Su­per Blue and Or­lan­do Oc­tave. Mud Mas, Blue Dev­ils, Jab Jabs and some mod­ern mas filled the streets as they rev­eled be­hind some 40-foot trans­porta­tion trucks. The de­li­cious band, Choco­late City, tan­ta­lized with their ap­peal­ing out­fits as they pa­rad­ed down the Point Fortin South­ern Main Road.

The crew, Spring Break, dis­played their colour­ful at­tire and fes­tive spir­its, win­ing heav­i­ly be­hind the trucks while the band, Can­dace and Jeff, cre­at­ed a Hawai­ian fes­ti­val with their pre­sen­ta­tion of Lu­au. Af­ter the morn­ing ses­sions were fin­ished, the streets were cleaned and the Kid­dies Car­ni­val and mod­ern day mas be­gan. It was fol­lowed the Pan Glo­ri­ous Pan com­pe­ti­tion at 6 pm. Cel­e­bra­tions con­tin­ue to­day with the Drag­on Boat Re­gat­ta and the sin­gle pan fi­es­ta which will be fol­lowed by the Schol­ar­ship Fund's Cool Down at the Guapo Beach Fa­cil­i­ty.


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