This evening, the Belize Carnival Association announced that despite the recent rains, the Carnival Road March will proceed tomorrow as scheduled. They say that based on conversations with the Met Service, the Tropical Wave will have passed by later tonight - and that the most they are expecting are a few scattered showers tomorrow morning.
So, to make it clear, the road march is proceeding, even if today the mayor said that if it was up to him he would want it to be postponed. He explained why.
Bernard Wagner, Belize City Mayor
"I believe that you have to be able to see that the rains will to some extent continue and you don't want indecision, you don't want indecisiveness. Carnival is about an activity where you want the sun it's an experience and if you are in and out and not sure it will turn people off so you have to be decisive in your decision making so we will have it or we will not have it and so you have to begin to make plans to if I'm not having Saturday when will I have it? Cause it's an experience and people will not go and stand up in rain that's the reality. And so the organizers have to quickly decide even if the rain stops will the streets be able to take it will the streets still have moisture on it water on it will it still draw the same sort of excitement? I am all for the carnival being celebrated on another day."
"In my view carnival is with sun We never enjoy a carnival in rain. I don't care what people say. Oh we will dance in the rain. No, it is his son activity. We want the family around We want the children around It's a sort of coming out. We sit down on the sidewalk and we wait around you don't want to be in any rain so while people are saying, let's have it in the rain. I am more a sun activity."
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