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Brooklyn’s Labor Day West Indian Carnival 2010 is in full swing and thousands of visitors from across the U.S., Canada, UK and the Caribbean are in Brooklyn for the event.

SATURDAY, SEP. 4
Saturday afternoon main event is the Junior Carnival at the Brooklyn Museum grounds.

The panorama at the Brooklyn Museum grounds on Saturday evening is expected to attract about 50,000 steelband lovers.  They will support their favorite steel orchestra in the fierce competition as each orchestra tries to dethrone Sonatas, the 2009 panorama champs.
Private shows continue all over Brooklyn. On Friday evening former Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith Mitchell was amongst several personalities at Friday Nite Spice Mas featuring the top Grenadian soca artists. Fans enjoyed the performances of all the artists especially King Ajamu.

SUNDAY, SEP 5
The main event is the Dimanche Gras show at the Brooklyn Museum grounds where the major costumes of each band, King and Queens of the Bands will compete. On the musical side King David Rudder is the feature attraction.

SOCCER
The Caribbean Cup competition will climax on Sunday afternoon at Jefferson HS playing field when St. Lucia and Jamaica will compete for the cup.

LABOR DAY
New York State top officials including Governor David Paterson and Mayor Mike Bloomberg will lead the carnival down Eastern Parkway at 11am. Police estimate about 1. 2 million revelers and other persons will be in the carnival.

By Don "Tafant" Curwen

What an uplifting day it was for Caribbean culture and society when calypsonian Winston “Gypsy” Peters, Trinidad and Tobago’s newly appointed Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism, was honored by D’ Big Apple Calypso Revue Foundation, Inc. The resplendent Skylight Art Gallery at Brooklyn’s Restoration Plaza was the setting for this historic event on Sunday August 29.  In attendance at the celebration was a wide cross section of cultural connoisseurs and activists who, no doubt, revere Caribbean culture.