VG Easter Festival parade flops
While a fair number of persons turned up for the parade, which made its way from the starting point of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College- Virgin Gorda Campus all the way to the Franka A. Pickering Festiville for a concert later in the evening, the participation in the parade itself was noticably poor.
As expected the parade did not start until just over an hour of the scheduled start time of 2:00 pm. But once it got underway, persons did not have much to see.
With just 15 floats and troupes participating in the parade, once it got started it ended very quickly as the parade proceeded to the Festival Grounds.
However, those that did show up put on a great show for the crowds and the sky dancers were especially entertaining.
Holding back for 50th VG Festival?
Speaking to this news site following the parade, Public Relations Officer of the Virgin Gorda Festival Sub-Committee Jerrell A. George said the turnout reflected what might be a desire to participate in the 50th Virgin Gorda Easter Festival in 2017 and hence the low participation this year.
“I think we got about the same number of troupes as last year...some people are waiting on the 50th anniversary next year and they decided to sit out this year’s parade,” said George.
George also said the results for the float parade should be ready by Wednesday March 30, 2016.
This year’s Virgin Gorda Easter Fest has been plagued by cutbacks by the Government who was slow in giving the Sub-Committee its initial funds to get preparations for Virgin Gorda Easter Festival 2016 in place.
This year saw no Miss Easter Festival and no Miss Gorgeous. There was also no Prince and Princess competition due to the downscaling of the festival due to limited funds.
The musical acts from overseas were severely reduced as Government decided the overseas acts were taking up too much of money upon consideration of the issue in the deliberations of the Standing Finance Committee.
One observer told this news site that during the three days of the VG Festival he has been noticing mostly persons from Tortola in the crowds as it seems the persons from VG have skipped the celebrations.
This news site can attest to seeing the ferries being filled to capacity from the Tortola side as persons tried to get to the sister island, and in at least one instance persons had to be left behind to wait an hour and a half until the next ferry.
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This year saw no Miss Easter Festival and no Miss Gorgeous. There was also no Prince and Princess competition due to the downscaling of the festival due to limited funds." this is what their own Public Relations Officer said, but when VINO said the same things the wicked MVW said is was not so...he has become a desperate person
The VG festival committee needs to be revamped! The chairperson for VG needs to go! This was the worse festival ever in history! That's why after village I went home... Stop this mentality of waiting for government to do everything and start fundraising!!