{"id":31163,"date":"2013-02-05T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=31163"},"modified":"2013-02-05T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:50:42","slug":"francis-parades-should-start-paying-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/francis-parades-should-start-paying-for-themselves","title":{"rendered":"Francis: Parades Should Start Paying For Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>While the official results of Junior Junkanoo Parade held on Saturday are yet unknown, National Co-ordinator for Junior Junkanoo, Percy Vola Francis said, he is pleased with the development of the Junior parade in Grand Bahama.<\/p>\n

“Over the 14 year period, I’ve seen a tremendous improvement in costume design, theme selection, the social interaction, the camaraderie of schools. It identifies that this program is a healer, a means by which if there is a turf war or disturbance or rivalry, it seems that Junkanoo is a soother.<\/p>\n

“We see that on parade when all the schools come together and there is a lovely coming together and that makes me feel good,” said Francis.<\/p>\n

However, Francis said, what he is concerned about is the fact that these parades generate no revenue.<\/p>\n

He noted that at the end of the day, what’s needed is a purse in the moving forward of the program, instead of relying on numbers and all the people to come in to do what is necessary.<\/p>\n

“Yes, we need sponsorship, sure, but these parades need to start paying for themselves. That concerns me.<\/p>\n

“Another thing that concerns me is the fact that at the end of the day, the art form of Junkanoo has to be in the school program. I don’t care what anyone says or thinks, I don’t care what the Ministry of Education thinks, I don’t care what the teachers think, I don’t care what the Ministers think, I am telling you this that Trinidad and Tobago has used Carnival in Trinidad to train their people,” stated Francis.<\/p>\n

“They incorporated it into the classroom and let me tell you there has been much improvement in the numbers and in the grades.”<\/p>\n

Francis said that Junior Junkanoo can be used as a yardstick.<\/p>\n

“We talk about the grades, they go up; the appearance of the students \u2013 rather than the boys balling their pants up and putting it in their socks, and being shabby (there can be a rule), if you can’t come to school looking decent, you can’t be in this parade; if you don’t improve in your grades, you can’t be in this parade; if you continue coming to school late, you can’t be a part of this parade.<\/p>\n

“And guess what, they will feel dead bad because they want to be a part of this thing and they would improve to do so.”<\/p>\n

Francis said that this is just the basic stuff that Junkanoo can do for the students.<\/p>\n

He went on to talk about the creative part of it which he said is a lesson all in itself.<\/p>\n

By Yasmin Popescu<\/span><\/em>
\nFreeport News Reporter<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: Mr. Francis was recently photographed as part of the Bahamian Project<\/a>. You can learn more about his portrait sitting and the project by clicking here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the official results of Junior Junkanoo Parade are still unknown, National Co-ordinator for Junior Junkanoo, Percy Vola Francis, said he is concerned about is the fact that these parades generate no revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[763],"class_list":["post-31163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-junior-junkanoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}