A MOVE BY SOME entertainment entrepreneurs to have alternative “jump-up” events on the biggest night of the Crop Over calendar apparently has some police officials nervous.
According to well-placed sources, the Bajan-Trini connection that organised the massive Ceaser’s Army street parade and fete last year while tens of thousands were partying the night away at the Foreday Morning jam around Bridgetown, is apparently coming again this year.
And it appears that at least one other bandleader who had previously worked with the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) to produce “official festival events” had been “soliciting interest and inviting” others to join in an alternative jump-up on the same night.
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