Mar 18
Barbadian Minister of Culture Steve Blackett is pushing for 2 days of Kadooment by 2012.
I don’t necessarily have any strong feelings on this one way or the other, except that I am a bit worried by this statement, from the linked article:
We’ll have to use the two bank holidays that are available to us in the month of August in a better way.
Because one of those “bank holidays … available … in the month of August” is Emancipation Day, and I would hate to see the significance of that day and the event it commemorates diminished by efforts to incorporate it into an extended Kadooment jump-up (keeping in mind that Kadooment is the more established of the two holidays). That being said, it will be interesting to see how the NCF handles things the next time Kadooment Day and Emancipation Day fall on the same date, as will be the case in 2011.