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Women engage in fist fight at Carrot Bay Festival
“Anybody who truly understands what our fore parents went through to be free cannot be celebrating with fights, stealing or doing negative things. Those are people who don’t understand the history of what their fore parents fought for,” Hon. Fahie stated during the opening ceremony of the Benito Festiville in Carrot Bay on August 8, 2013.
Two days later, it appeared as if all his words had fallen on deaf ears as fights erupted at the Festival, one of them between two women. The fight was quickly parted but even as the parties were being pulled apart, another one almost began.
One of several reporters who attempted to take photographs of the disturbance was quickly pounced upon by a not too impressed male who tried to grab a female reporter’s camera and demanded that the photos be deleted.
A heated argument ensued but this was eventually subdued through the intervention of other reporters, and later the presence of Police Officers.
What was strange yet instructive, however, is that a senior unnamed Police Officer, instead of chiding the offending male, chose to ask the reporter why the photographs were being taken in the first instance.
It remains unclear what caused the ruckus in the beginning, but there should be no excuse for Police Officers not doing their job correctly whenever the opportunity presented itself, especially in instances when a woman is clearly the victim of an assault or attempted assault.
There were at least four fights at the Carrot Bay Festival Last Lap. One of them left a young man bleeding heavily from the face.
The fights at the Carrot Bay 'Last Lap' event followed several reported fights during the Road Town leg of the Emancipation Festival. There were reportedly 14 fights on one night alone at the Ira Oliver Skelton Festiville. Very ironic too is that the honouree had made a special appeal for persons to keep the peace at the launch of the festival in May and also at the opening of the Festiville on July 26, 2013.
“Zero tolerance, no fighting, no mishaps and keep the budget to what we agree for,” Mr Skelton had pleaded for at the launch of the 2013 Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival at La Piazza, Prospect Reef on Friday May 31, 2013.
Attempts to contact Chairman of the Virgin Islands Festival & Fairs Committee, Mr Marvin ‘MB’ Blyden for comment on the matter were unsuccessful up to post time.
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28 Responses to “Women engage in fist fight at Carrot Bay Festival”
was it over car keys or c*cky?
Typical police not wanting to get involved in solviong problems and preventing same, but want full pay every two weeks.
It Was Vi Showtime Manager And A Vi Showtime Fan..
It don't have not a thing to do with vi show time if them vg b*tch will stop take ppl man it will not have a fight I was right there so tola ppl need stop talk $h!t about vi show time