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St. Vincent and the Grenadines celebrates 2025 Vincymas carnival
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7/3/2025
We go with our special envoy Belen de los Santos, who has all the latest information on this carnival season in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. teleSUR
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And celebrations are ongoing in St. Vincent's and the Grand East in what is known as Vinci
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Mass Carnivals, one of the most important celebrations held in the island. Let's go
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with our special envoy, the Belén de los Santos, for more updates of this Carnival season. Welcome, Belén.
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Hello, Luis. Such a pleasure to be here once again. We're still in St. Vincent and the
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Grenadines. You were just saying it. Vinci Mass is underway. It's a complete celebration.
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And today's Thursday, so we are really nearing that final weekend. The main events are starting
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today, so everyone is already very much excited, prepared, and ready for the final competitions,
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the final masquerade, the final party. Everything is getting ready. So let's review a little bit of
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what is happening. We were talking yesterday about the cultural importance of Carnival to St. Vincent
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and the Grenadines, a unique Caribbean festival and Carnival with its special characteristics. We
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were talking about the importance of the cultural rhythms and how Carnival is really a moment,
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a place in which the different components of society come here and celebrate that cultural
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identity. So that is part of what is happening at this moment. And also, yesterday, we were touring
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the Capitol. We were touring Kingstown. And we were looking at and chatting with everyone there.
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People were getting ready. They were getting prepared. So we had performers rehearsing their
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final runs before their competitions, their performances that are starting today with the
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main events and will continue throughout the weekend. Also, we visited a lot of band camps.
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These are the sites in which the bands or the groups that participate in the Carnival are getting
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ready for the masquerade. They're getting ready for the competition. So every band has its own name,
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its own grouping, its own choosing its own ideas and themes for the participation in the Carnival.
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They're making their own artisanal costumes. So we visited them. We talked about the importance,
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the significance of this moment. And they were all very much excited. But also, and very important,
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they were talking about this as a moment to participate and continue the tradition with
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younger generations. Many of the people involved in these bands were participating in Carnival from a
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very, very young age. And now they're leading their bands and they're leading the costume design
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making. And they are doing this with younger people as well, continuing that tradition. So that is a
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little bit of what we're leaving here. As the final events, the most important ones are just hours away.
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Belen, you were saying that we're on the final stretch of this Carnival season. What specifically is on the
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agenda for Thursday this day? What are the special activities that are going to be held this Thursday?
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Yes. So today is a very important day. A lot of people have been waiting for it. And a lot of the
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preparations and rehearsals that we saw yesterday were particularly for today. Because today is the
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still and glitter event. This is a combination of steel band competition and also a masquerade.
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So one of the themes was the steel band mid-style. So you have the glitter, the style, the costumes,
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so typical of Carnival, but with such a special, unique artisanal essence here in St. Vincent and the
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Grenadines. And that is meeting the steel band competition, the percussion, one of the rhythmic
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components of this Carnival as well. So that will be tonight. We will be there. We will be recording
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everything and sharing it with you and the audience, of course, as well. And before earlier a little
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bit in the day, we have the junior edition as well. As we were saying yesterday, all of this also
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involves not only the adult competitions, but also the young adult competitions, the kids
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competitions who are getting ready in this concert, in the celebrations to participate of the event as
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well. So we'll have the junior edition as well. The kids will also be playing their steel bands. And we
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will continue to follow everything. It'll definitely be a great, great night.
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Thank you, Wilaine. We're going to stay in touch, of course, for a coming news brief to have all the
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details of what is happening. And we're going to be paying attention to these big celebrations this
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Thursday night. Of course, we'll be in touch.
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