This should have been a story about making wise selections for your mate.

"*said the group had some challenges, including the weather and being first in the line-up.*"

Thats not what they said before the parade. First position was nothing cuz *they was ready*. Can we just fix it one time? Is it impossible for an A group to be ready at 12AM? If it is fix something. Make the banners more transportable, make the groups smaller, something, stage the costumes in a warehouse downtown from the night before, build a junkanoo arena.. do something so in 50 years we dont have to look down from heaven and see people talking about how hard it was to come out first

Duties we supposed to be eliminated with VAT. Why are we paying up to 65% for cars and car parts?

You may want another 50 years of what we had. I want better

"*junkanoo returned – and it was dazzling*"

This is why we never get any better. Whatever we get served if they show one spark of brilliance it was the greatest show ever. If every year we can only get A performances out of 2 groups in each category why are we wasting millions supporting 10 groups?

"*There was even one clip posted online of a dancer struggling with a costume as it fell apart, but she shrugged it off and just kept going*"

This sums up the experience, costume falls apart, *what spirit*... no the costume fell apart, on Bay St, the feedback should be, *great spirit **but** my what substandard presentation*. We need to provide realistic feedback not hyped up euphoria

**This why Sam was able to rob everybody, say anything, Bahamians dont care for facts, just hype**

Just a thought, how many years will it take to get the exact same process correct? Ever year we hear the exact same problems repeated and how much we learned. My suggestion, digitize one or two sections and work them out. Inclusive of Boxing Day next year. If all goes well increase the number of sections. Let Rawson square be last onboarded

Lol. See birdie was depending on ZNS coverage

People who cant afford cable watch ZNS, we cant forget them.

And I know when you talk about a premier show with less people, the first problem is all 5000 people want to be in the premier show. There's a solution for that that the nfl, nba, fifa, World Cup and Olympics have figured out, wanna have the best game? Start the best players. Not even Ronaldo is *entitled* to play, and at some point based on prrformance, theres a retirement from A play

"*Tonight’s intrusion on the broadcast of the 2022 Boxing Day Junkanoo Parade by Rev Cable Bahamas and its company Aliv by placing a message redirecting viewers of The ZNS Network to their Channel 212 is further proof of the fundamental issue of having a cable provider competing with the broadcast services they are tasked to carry.”*

**If** true it is indeed a puzzling move by Cable. Im not sure what they hoped to achieve by it, Im hoping it wasnt a deliberate action and was due to some technical issues. My understanding is ZNS is always supposed to be available as a non paid service to all islands of the Bahamas.

However the statement by the chairman is also contradictory, you cant talk about anticompetitive behaviour by a competitor and conclude that it justifies you having a monopoly on a service.

As to "quality", **junkanoo has a fundamental problem. The quality of the overall parade IS poor. There are segments of excitement and good presentation but overall spectators are subjected to sub par groups unfinished costumes, bad music and disorganization. Filling gaps with the discordant scraps groups is not entertainment.** The main problem is the euphoria among the participants makes them blind to reality. No matter what low quality is displayed junkanoo is always described as the greatest show on earth, but it isnt. For that moniker to be accurate, it should be one continuous flow of excellence from an awe inspiring opening to a massive heart pounding finale. Noone can put claim to that. And I can hear it now, *you dont know what it takes*, but I actually do, my point is if it takes that much to produce this, you need to restrategize, possibly a main parade with less people focused on presentation , maybe even a combined practice beforehand, staging areas downtown so costumes can be moved a week before, then a second tier parade(s) thats just "hats, t-shirts and shoes"

**Bahamian spectators are generally satisfied to see a 10 minute flash of brilliance from their favourite group after waiting 6 hours or more. What paid audience anywhere else would accept this return on their admission dollar?**

Even the hotel shows. Theyre just lacking, the costumes are always unimaginative wash downs. What saves us everytime is the energy not so much the presentation.

Junkanoo needs a massive overhaul. It needs to be split into the greatest show which should be **great** and the side activities on other days, since this discussion has been going on for decades with junkanooers too vested in pointing out the effort they put in as opposed to the reality of the quality output, I expect our descendants to be having the same discussion 100 years from now.

My take, **the idea of a professional junkanoo show is beautiful thing, the energy of junkanoo is super real, if the two ever meet, it has the potential to be the greatest show on earth**