Dominica to be represented by a 75-member team for CARIFESTA XV

Dominica will be represented by a 75-member team at this year’s CARIFESTA XV, scheduled to take place in Barbados from the 22 to 31 of August.

This was according to Culture Minister Gretta Roberts during the recently held 2025-2026 Budget debate.

This year’s festival will be celebrated under the theme: “Caribbean Roots. Global Excellence.” and promises a rich and diverse programme showcasing the best of the region in fashion, film, culinary arts, visual and literary arts, craft, music, dance, theatre, and more.

“We at the Ministry of Culture, we are presently preparing for CARIFESTA XV, which will be held in Barbados this [year],” she said. “We are looking at sending a team of about 75 participants to include 30 of our youth,  30 of our young people, because we want them to experience the Caribbean Festival of  Arts, and Barbados  wants us to  come because they believe it will be the best festival of arts ever.”

She continued, “So we are planning to send our people there.”

Roberts added that the team will be performing in dance,  in art, there will be an art exhibition, a fashion parade. and product displays.

She thanked the Dominica Export Import Agency (DEXIA) and the Ministry of Tourism, “because they too are helping us, and Education of course, because we are engaging the youth.  So all these three ministries are working with us to ensure that we really represent during CariFest.”