Bouyon Artist Asa Bantan claims that the 9th Annual Summer Breakfast Fete “Tribute to Sherwin Brown” pumped millions of dollars into Dominica’s economy.
He made the announcement on DBS Radio’s ‘Talking Tourism Program’ on Wednesday.
The 2025 Summer Breakfast Fete weekend, which was dubbed a success, began on Friday, August 8, and culminated with an Island Tour Wet Fete on Monday, August 11.
“My overall favourite moment would be everybody, all the bars and so many communities, and Dominica on a whole, benefited and made money,” he said. “I mean, a lot of money circulated into the economy [and] if I have to do a rough math, over 6 million dollars for sure.”
According to him, all the Airbnbs were filled as well as the Fort Young Hotel.
He explained further that some of the artists lodged at Ocean Edge, “Goodwill, Canefield, St Joseph [and] Mahaut. We had a group from St Maarten staying all the way in Jimmit. There were so many people.”
Bantan believes that the country benefited the most when visitors were leaving.
“They had to pay their departure taxes,” he stated. “We had thousands of people leaving the island…”
Additionally, Bantan indicated that the Breakfast event helps to provide artists with the recognition they deserve to perform on the main stage at the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF).
“From day one when we started Breakfast Fete and our wet fetes and so on, we have always been bringing a lot of local artists, we have also been making local artists our priority on our main stages,” he stated. “And what Breakfast Fete has done is it gave a lot of artists chances to get to the World Creole Music Festival.”
He continued, “I realized that a lot of artists who have [performed] on the Breakfast Fete stage, depending on how they perform, and how hot they are, the World Creole Music Festival then pulls those artists. Because plenty of my artists–now I am seeing them on the festival [line-up] and it is because of Breakfast Fete.”
Bantan added, “Breakfast Fete is where some of the people who do the selection saw those artists…”
Asa Bantan for Prime Minister! He cannot be worse than the zehzeh PM Skerrit and dotish Melissa!
Grandbay Again!
Huge..Bigger than WCMF in reality. I experienced all 3 nights total niceness and foreign exchange.
2026 will be off da chain! just watch.
(but wait – de drums missing where’s Sakiss from last time?)
The greatest “wet fet” we ever had was the tropical Killer storm Erica of which August 15th will be the 10th Anniversary.
Did our nation ( of people filled with godly reverend fear) learn anything? Have we forgotten the very religious euphoria that was induced subsequent to the disaster?
This Nation is now in a state of unprecedentedly moral decomposition like we’ve never seen before.
Nastiness in musical lyrics is now culturized, normalised and glorified.
As per the attire of many of those local and visiting women, the event could as well be dubbed the beach fet. Decency has now been downgraded to an idiom of speech.
But who cares ? As in everywhere else in this present dispensation, money speaks louder than truth.
Just go church ⛪️ that’s what dem white people trained us to do, and chill with your pastor and your priest. This generation is tired of religion.
l think this man has been smoking to much of the white powder , he’s so loud and obnoxious.