Here is an email report I got from New York labor day that I will post for your edification…

>”Labor Day in Brooklyn has come and gone and for the Bajans, just like CropOver, there was controversy. At first there was a lot of uncertainty as to whether there would be a Bajan truck this year, then we heard there was a Bajan truck then we heard there were two Bajan trucks. Well folks, to clear the air, there was only one Bajan truck. The second truck was really a Trini truck with Bajan artistes. Sesame Flyers, a well established Trini organisation in Brooklyn was the truck.
Bajans in large numbers as usual “got behind the truck”….the Bajan truck. They wore their colors in bandanas, T shirts and whatever else and carried flags. The costumed members, though small in number gave agood account of themselves.
The band Electric along with DJs, Blood, Mr. Dale and other Bajan artistes, kept the crowd in a party mood until they were turned off the Parkway at 4:30 p.m because of a shooting incident as we were told then, now we are hearing otherwise. There are lots of questions for WIADCA, the organisers of the parade. Other bands were also turned off, but some bands were allowed to go through after some were turned off. Was there a plan to have only Trini costumed bands on the Parkway?
From what we heard about the time the organisers had to prepare, they did their best with what they had in such a short space of time. Sup;port must be given to the Bajan-American Domino League.
Reports from the Sesame Flyers truck which had Lil Rick, Peter Ram, Biggie Irie were varied. Some said it was good some said it was not all that. Some said they had a lot of Bajans some said the Bajan truck had more Bajans. One thing for sure is that it was not identified along the Parkway as a Bajan truck. Anyone who knows Sesame Flyers knows it was not a Bajan truuck.
Bajans in New York need to get their act together.”

Now I hope you noticed that the email opening statement that “there was controversy” in New York, and notice I did not go down there. They are always saying that Peter Boyce causes all the controversy in Barbados well you cant blame me, only the NCF went down there, maybe NCF wants to “export” controversy as a national product of Barbados.

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