St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF), its sponsors and booth holders are busy "dressing up" a venue that transforms into the largest outdoor restaurant and entertainment facility in the Northeastern Caribbean.
Booth-holders started to move into the village as of April 16, followed by sponsors who are decorating the entire village with marketing and advertising paraphernalia of their respective companies.
SCDF's largest corporate sponsor United Telecommunications Services (UTS) clearly has the greatest presence in the village, followed by another large corporate sponsor, ILTT (Heineken).
The official opening of Carnival 2011 and the Carnival Village takes place on Monday, April 25. The festivities will start with the traditional opening jump-up which kicks off from a new starting point this year: Milton Peters College in South Reward. The jump-up will make its way down L.B. Scott Road, Bush Road, over Prins Bernhard Bridge, up Walter Nisbeth Road (Pondfill) and end at the Village. The jump-up starts at 8:00pm and should reach the village at approximately 11:30pm.
Once at the village, Culture Minister Rhoda Arrindell is expected to open the village gates and deliver a short address to the crowd from the village stage.
SCDF President Stuart Johnson said SCDF members and all stakeholders had been working for months to prepare for St. Maarten's largest cultural manifestation. "Months of hard work by about 30 volunteers of SCDF have gone into preparing for Carnival 2011. It is all about to pay off with what we expect to be a terrific festival," Johnson said.
"It will be nine days of big shows, colourful parades, lots of food and pure excitement. We hope the general public will be happy with the Carnival product we have put together with the cooperation of all our stakeholders. We will be fettin' for Carnival 2011."
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