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Guy Fawkes bonfire coordinators renew calls for traffic control
“Every year we keep asking them (RVIPF) to assist us in controlling the traffic. We suggested that vehicles park at the bottom of the roads and people would take the little walk up to the area to enjoy the event and they would not help us.” This is according to one of the founder organisers of the activity, Mr Reole Frett aka Limping Jack.
Mr Frett told Virgin Islands News Online that this year’s turnout to the activity was one of the largest ever seen since its commencement some twenty (20) years ago. “They had taken it down to the Greenland ground for two years but the people wasn’t getting the feeling so we eventually had to come up back here and it is going brilliant, just look at the turn out, hundreds,” said Mr Frett.
The Jennings Hill area was covered with smoke throughout the activity, both from the massive bonfire and the many grills that served up a wide variety of foods. The chief man who was seen manning the bonfire at intervals would chant, “Hip Hip” and the crowd would respond accordingly, “Hooray”.
The pain of traversing through the area was definitely felt by those in attendance as well as those who had to pass through to get to their destinations. There were no traffic cops visible on the scene; however, firefighters were on spot with one of their fire tenders.
Mr Frett expressed profound appreciation to persons who have been supporting the annual activity. He reflected that it started as a very small one with himself and one Mr Dillard Freeman.
Guy Fawkes Day is observed in Britain and some British Overseas Territories annually on November 5. Its symbolism is based on the Catholic dissident Guy Fawkes and 12 co-conspirators who spent months planning to blow up King James I of England during the opening of Parliament on November 5, 1605.
As told in the history books, their assassination attempt was foiled the night before when Fawkes was discovered lurking in a cellar below the House of Lords next to 36 barrels of gunpowder. Londoners immediately began lighting bonfires in celebration that the plot had failed, and a few months later Parliament declared November 5 a public day of thanksgiving. Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Bonfire Night, has been around in one form or another ever since.
Though originally anti-Catholic in tone, in recent times it has served mainly as an excuse to watch fireworks, make bonfires, drink mulled wine and burn Guy Fawkes effigies (along with the effigies of current politicians and celebrities).
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