Val Cuffy advocates promotion of Dominica for the Carnival season

Cuffy said there is a need make Dominica’s carnival great again

Promoter of the Mas Domnik 2017, Val Cuffy has stated that there are “tremendous opportunities” to promote Dominican music, especially during this time of carnival, by using media outlets both locally and abroad to get persons to come into the country.

He was speaking at a weekly Carnival press conference held on Wednesday morning.

He said that there must be a highlighting of Dominica as a product.

“We really want to make our music have a tremendous opportunity within the media we have coming from overseas and with the live feed around the world, to create Dominica, a good product, so that we can get persons to come in,” he said.

Cuffy said that considering the year 2018 is deemed to be a very significant year, where milestones in different aspects will be met, the country must be brought into focus and “rally the support that we need,” to bring much attention to such milestones.

“Next year is a very important year for Dominica. We celebrate 40 years as an independent nation, we are celebrating 21 years of the World Creole Music Festival, and we are celebrating 30 years of Bouyon music. So we are going to have a 40:21:30 celebration, so it is important that we get this right and get our country into the right focus and we all rally the support that we need to make Dominica’s Carnival great again,” Cuffy remarked.

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7 Comments

  1. Mamosa
    February 17, 2017

    Rome is burning, but lets not worry about that….Just promote carnival so as to have a good fete. Please people, look around you.

  2. reginalddd
    February 16, 2017

    Dominica has the most unique carnival especially our jouvert. Carnival seems to only be for those who live here and diaspora. We talk about changing the date, but the date isnt the problem, we just need to more funding for Carnival like what we get for Creole Festival and better planning and organisation.

  3. Dominican
    February 15, 2017

    Val, I know your motivation is good but in order to celebrate carnival, why would a visitor come to Dominica when they can travel much more easily to say Trinidad or Brasil for a much more spectacular festival. personally, I see little fun in jumping up in a cacaphony of bouyon noise, behind an old truck, with a sound system strapped to it any old way. I can see our own people coming but that is not just for carnival but to visit friends and family, getting some sunshine but spending little by way of hotels or restaurants.

  4. zandoli
    February 15, 2017

    Val
    If you want to promote Dominica’s music, the artists must get themselves on streaming services like Spotify.

    I subscribe to that service and there is a paucity of Dominican music on that site.

  5. megso
    February 15, 2017

    I agree with ‘Young Bull’, but all the attention is now focused on the Government arresting members of the opposition instead of Carnival.

    • anonymous2
      February 16, 2017

      So which is more important, Carnival or dealing with a communist government on a witch hunt. Forget Carnival…….the frivolity of the mindless population is what has led to the deplorable state that DA is in.

  6. Stupes !
    February 15, 2017

    Val don\\’t worry about that… Lennox and Skerrit went to Guyana to Promote DOMINICA
    with Caricom.
    They talking about Diplomatic passports, CBI, Financial fraud and Guyana to present arrest warrant treaty at CARICOM intercessional meeting

    http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/headline-Guyana-to-present-arrest-warrant-treaty-at-CARICOM-intercessional-meeting-33434.html

    Somedody is talking…. Don\\’t u worry !

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