ARTICLE - CARNIVAL 2012 - SECOND DAY

THE 2012 NATIONAL CARNIVAL OF HAITI, CONFIRMS ITS SUCCESS ON THE SECOND DAY
(Haiti Libre) -

Although the Ministry of Haitians Living Abroad (MHAVE), has apologized to the Diaspora community for not being present at the 2012 National Carnival, due to lack of financial means... it seems that Minister Daniel Supplice finally found a solution to allow the Diaspora to have a stand, however modest.

This second day of carnival festivities confirmed the success, initiated Sunday, of National Carnival 2012, in Haiti. Walking bands, dance groups, allegorical floats, and musical floats drew on their repertoire to provide a high quality entertainment to local and foreign revelers. The bands offered an animation of very good quality throughout the course. Tenors of compas music like Djakout #1, T-vice, Carimi, Ram (Racine), Brothers Posse,(Rap and Reggae), and Fam Lame (Rock) among others, have marked and inflamed the passion of revelers for hours... until late in the night...

Online news agencies and television channels of the diaspora came to cover the event and thanks to antennas installed on the stand of MHAVE, the Haitian diaspora can follow online the progress of the Carnival.

While this Tuesday, February 21, 2012, begins the third and final day of this National Carnival, Jean Gabriel Fortuné, the resigned Departmental Director declared, "once again we say thank you to everyone who made ​​the trip to come to the National Carnival without violence. Les Cayes has proven once again that it is a city inhabited by a civilized population. [...] Come view the beautiful atmosphere, the beautiful colors, beautiful well-designed streets, the beautiful beaches of the Southern Department for the last day of the carnival. The Les Cayes people are standing, and we ask that the whole country take the example from us [...]"