Executive member of the Dominica Calypso Association (DCA) Daryl Bobb believes that the Carnival season should be extended to prevent scheduling conflicts, where events occur on the same date and time. He made the statement as a guest on the Creole Heartbeat program recently.
The 2025 Carnival season was launched on Friday, December 27, 2024, and a packed calendar of events has already been made available to the public, with several of these events scheduled to take place on the same date.
“We are such a small economy, our population is so small. It increases by a small percentage when our visitors come in, but it is not significant for us to try to have events on on top of the other,” he said. “I believe in extending the carnival season to accommodate all of that.”
He asserts that events should start earlier.
“The carnival season itself opens too late…,” Bobb remarked. “Because I would like to go to some of those events that I am hearing about.”
However, he stated that these organizers are depriving him of coming to their events, “because everybody wants to put one on top of the other.”
Bobb pointed out that this concern has been expressed for quite some time.
“We have been putting reasonable arguments on the table,” Bobb stated. “Why don’t we try to coexist, why don’t we try to support each other?”
He continued, “We should be advertising one of those events at our show. We cannot do that because those events [exist] at the same time with us.”
He added, “We do not want to compete with anyone, we want to support people. We want to be even able to sell their tickets at our events, but that is impossible.”
Dary.b I’m trying to understand what you’re saying.
Is this a joke or what? Doing business in Dominica between November and the Lenten season is like trying to pass a piece of thread through the eye of a needle with unsteady hands. Now they want to trim the number of available business days in order to fete some more.
with that knowledge conduct your business sooner. if majority wants it. let them have it. we need to learn that others share their own views on things even it don’t align with ours. I too find It equally frustrating. but you make the system work for you.
A reasonable request. Times have changed. The profile and needs of the typical Dominican consumer have changed so there will be even more events planned as the years go by.