West Indian Nations conglomerated in New York City on Labor Day at the 41st West Indian-American Day Carnival Parade!

Make Sure you visit the West Indian-American Day Carnival Association Website at http://www.wiadca.com/

The vibrant and festive West Indian-American Day Carnival Parade makes its way through Crown Heights on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn yesterday.

The food was plentiful: Oxtail, macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, roasted corn, and jerk pork were sold at stands along the route…

The parade yesterday, which ran to the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn from Crown Heights, was a sea of neon spandex. Performers gyrated on 4-foot stilts and women in giant butterfly costumes with pterodactyl wingspans strutted by.

The crowd lining the parade route — sometimes up to seven people deep — were clad in their home countries’ flags, many wearing face paint in the colors of Jamaica, Guyana, Haiti, and a dozen other West Indian nations.

And of coarse Nevis Island was there proudly representing Nevis Culture and Nevis Cuisine…

At the Nevis booth, parade watchers lined up for homemade specialties such as salt-fish cake; johnnycake, a flour-based fried patty, and goat water, a soupy combination of goat, scallion, carrots, celery, and potato.

I LOVE this quote… “It’s just West Indies pride … one big last hurrah before the summer’s over,” said Zach Bynoe, 25, insisting the parade is not about competition between the small countries.

The Nevis booth is a family-run affair. For the past 20 years, Barbs Frances, 45, and her extended family have driven a rental truck from the Bronx to sell their food starting at 5 a.m. Despite the heat coming off her skillet as she fried the salt-fish patties, Ms. Frances was smiling. The day is all about “seeing everyone who you’ve known for a long time,” she said.

You can read the entire article HERE from nysun.com

A new season is approaching and we can almost say “ta-ta” to a Summer Nevis Vacation. Not to worry though, the Island of Nevis offers incredible NEVIS DEALS all year round

Nevis Lover ~ Becca Briley

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