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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Rain fails to dampen spirits at South parade of bands

by

Sascha Wilson
1967 days ago
20200224

Over­cast skies and a driz­zle failed to damp­en the spir­its of mas­quer­aders dur­ing the San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee’s Pa­rade of Bands yes­ter­day.

The pa­rade, how­ev­er, got off to a late start with the first large band Jages­sar Cos­tumes cross­ing the High Street judg­ing point at 4 pm. For the past 48 years the band has been pro­duc­ing fan­cy In­di­an mas and its pre­sen­ta­tion this year is ‘Un­tamed Ter­ri­to­ry’.

The band cap­tured third place in the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Queen com­pe­ti­tion with its por­tray­al Shama­ran-Guardian of the Horned Ser­pent.

“We had no ob­sta­cles we see­ing a lil rain com­ing but that will not stop us. We play­ing mas still. We have a good chance of King and Queen South so the on­ly next thing is the Band of the Year,” said band­leader Ju­nior Jages­sar.

The band is one of three large bands in San Fer­nan­do and they will be seek­ing to snatch the Band of the Year South ti­tle away from Fire­works Pro­mo­tion.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia along the band route, Fire­works Pro­mo­tion’s band­leader Nisa Nathu Hari said they were eye­ing the ti­tle again this year with their pre­sen­ta­tion Fan­tasies and Fairy­tales.

“We ob­vi­ous­ly would love to re­tain the ti­tle at the end of the day. I think we have put out a lot of work, a lot of hard labour.”

How­ev­er, she ac­knowl­edged that their com­peti­tors al­so bring out very good pre­sen­ta­tions so “may the best band win.”

And hold­er of 25 South Band of the Year ti­tles, Kalicha­ran Car­ni­val, is con­fi­dent that they will re­claim the ti­tle this year. Last year the band de­cid­ed not to cross the judg­ing point. They dis­agreed with the Har­ris Prom­e­nade judg­ing point due to its close prox­im­i­ty to the hos­pi­tal. This year their por­tray­al is Street Jam.

“I be­lieve in any project I am do­ing to do it with con­fi­dence, so I think that will be the ul­ti­mate goal for us to achieve the Band of Year (south) ti­tle 2020.”

A to­tal of eleven Car­ni­val bands reg­is­tered for the pa­rade of the bands in south. Guardian Me­dia al­so caught up with Con­venor of Car­ni­val Naigum Joseph who gave south Car­ni­val a thumbs up so far with J’Ou­vert record­ing no in­ci­dents.

He said they were ex­pect­ing 11 bands to be out on the streets for Mon­day night. The bands ad­hered to the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion’s di­rec­tive to turn down their mu­sic as they passed near the hos­pi­tal.


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