Mother Pratt wants rules to curb ‘vulgar’ Junior Junkanoo

By KHRISNA VIRGIL

Tribune Staff Reporter

kvirgil@tribunemedia.net

A FORMER Cabinet Minister wants officials with oversight of Junior Junkanoo to enforce penalties to discourage vulgarity from parade participants.

Cynthia “Mother” Pratt, who was Deputy Prime Minister under the first Christie administration, said she was appalled at the number of high school girls who were nearly naked and dancing distastefully at the parade on Saturday.

She wants the junior groups to have their scores heavily reduced at the instance of such behaviour or face disqualification if students are not willing to comply with standards governing how they conduct themselves.

“I was very concerned,” Mrs Pratt said, “with the number of little girls that had their breasts hanging out and doing all sorts of disgraceful dancing. There ought not to be this kind of behaviour from school aged children. What message are they sending? And what message are we sending in allowing them to act in this way and then at the end of the day we reward them.

“There needs to be a certain dress code and a standard enforced for how they are allowed to dress and carry themselves. And this slackness was transmitted across the country because the camera men seemed to focus only on these teen aged girls. “

Comparing high schools, Mrs Pratt praised participants from the family islands which she said displayed a certain calibre of behaviour which she described as tasteful and well put together.

“I mean when I looked at those girls from C R Walker, I just couldn’t believe what they were allowed to do. It was totally different from the ones that came from Spanish Wells.”

On Saturday, hundreds of students from throughout the country gathered at the Thomas A Robinson Stadium to participate in Junior Junkanoo, which saw the C R Walker Knights claim the first place title. Spanish Wells All Age School placed second, followed by South Andros School, third, Harbour Island All Age School, fourth, and St John’s College fifth.

Comments

bahamiandude112 says...

That's right tell them about they fresh rank hip mother pratt. They to fresh, they need a dress code for junior Junkanoo! They ain't no big woman.

Posted 19 December 2013, 12:53 p.m. Suggest removal

ThisIsOurs says...

There was that one girl in the nurse's uniform that I thought was a "bit" much but other than that I didn't see anything too bad...mother Pratt is a good woman but with all of the alleged mismanagement of UR 10.0..I don't put know...not everyone can manage...

Posted 19 December 2013, 1:16 p.m. Suggest removal

john33xyz says...

Wow, I wish she was concerned about "distasteful acts" back when she was the Minister responsible for the prison.

Posted 19 December 2013, 10:47 p.m. Suggest removal

croberts6969 says...

What do you expect when our national parade is a bunch of people jumping around like they are possessed.

Posted 19 December 2013, 10:59 p.m. Suggest removal

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