The issues identified in the virtual New Year’s Junkanoo parade will be corrected and the parade will be reaired following widespread backlash, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Mario Bowleg said yesterday.
“There were challenges that they faced that caused the production not to be up to the standard the ministry, JCNP (Junkanoo Corporation of New Providence) or the country at large would have liked to see it,” Bowleg told reporters outside Cabinet.
“We are correcting those challenges and we intend to, once the stakeholders and myself and the ministry review the corrections of that production, and we intend to air that again.
“And so, the Bahamian people are our customers and if they’re unsatisfied, we apologize and we will do it right. That’s the only thing we can do and move on from there.”
Bowleg said the parade was produced by a Bahamian company.
He said the company is “well known for the works they have done and the great works in this field before”.
The parade, which was called, “The Spirit of Junkanoo” and was shot at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium, originally aired on ZNS and Facebook on January 1.
It was produced after the annual Junkanoo parades were canceled for a second year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The video was deleted from the ministry’s Facebook page.
Despite this, other social media pages kept videos of the parade up.
Those videos were muddy and appeared to be streamed in low quality.
“The Spirit of Junkanoo was something that my ministry and JCNP decided that we wanted to bring back something to the Bahamian people which they were lacking for the last two years,” the minister said.
“So, the mere fact that we took the initiative to want to do such a thing and it was the first time done in the country, I am proud of my ministry and JCNP for us to put something forward.”
The Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture said it allocated $300,000 for the event, which also includes virtual parades on Grand Bahama and the Family Islands.
Of that figure, according to the ministry, $126,000 was given to Junkanoo groups on New Providence as a stipend.
“On production and advertising, the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture spent $24,000 on production and $200 on audio advertising,” the ministry said in a statement.
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