Carnival Blues: 12 (DI Nick Dixon Crime)

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And the crime being enacted, and solved, herein is also quite intriguing and kept my attention, and kept me guessing throughout. It's well plotted and that plot is expertly executed with some great characters, both series and episode. All, irrespective of the size of their contribution, well drawn and completely credible.

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Mark is a songster, and his songs cover all manner of non-standard subjects. With catchy tunes, lyrics than intrigue and engage, and striking rhythms, they make you smile, think and move. He takes elements of roots music, including folk, blues and gospel, to create something new that is very much his own genre. Each song is a snapshot of life or has a story to tell, like a 3-minute film or novel. The band features Storm Warning founding members and Larry Miller band members bassist Derek White and keyboard player Ian Salisbury, plus the ever impressive guitarist Steve Summers and vocalist Mike Sebbage, who were both previously with the band Rien de Faire.Compton was commissioned by NHC to create a short film on Rahamut’s work in 2018. Remembering the time she spent with him, she says he exemplified the real spirit of Carnival. “When you speak to the people who started all of these things or continued these legacies, if you sit and have a conversation with them, they will give so much and so openly, because they really want people to continue this. They know that they’re not going to be around forever. It’s not just magic that they create, but it’s their willingness to give, to share, to teach, and to continue. Carnival UK have reassured Nautilus International of there being no intent to undertake steps towards dismissal and re-engagement and have rescinded the HR1 form submitted to the insolvency service, while providing an update to the relevant Bermudan authorities. Over 800 carnival performers will present music, dance, costumes, puppets, circus, and acrobatics from groups including Banda Dida (Brazil), Circo Fantazztico (Costa Rica), Belmont Freetown Performing Arts Company(Trinidad), Barefeet Theatre (Zambia), Harlem Samba (USA) Artscape(South Africa) KalentuRa Drums (the Netherlands) Gwanaval (Martinique) and Samba Resille (France) as well as Pulse of the Place, Edinburgh Chinese Art & Culture Community and Dance Ihaymi from Edinburgh. In addition, no actual Carnival parade or spontaneous carnival celebration would be held. However, Carnival being a part of our culture and having spent months with a mask on our face, it would have been nice if we could get to wear a carnival mask instead and who knows what costumes and floats would have been created on the theme of the coronavirus? Carnival has always reflected the energy and activism of the times, while being many things to many people. My journey with it started in the 1980s, when my Ghanaian father would drive me from our home in the London suburbs into the heart of the street festival. Dad was a taxi driver, whose raison d’etre was conversation: he revelled at the chance to chat with more than one person at a time, and exchanged a ceremonial ‘hello!’ with every passer-by, which left little time for dancing.

FTSE 100-listed Carnival earlier said that it was “categorically not making any redundancies” and had “significantly increased our headcount across our fleet”. To listen to the full interview with Fiona Compton on the origins of NHC Carnival, go to www.shadepodcast.co.uk. Increasingly we believe the world needs more meaningful, real-life connections between curious travellers keen to explore the world in a more responsible way. That is why we have intensively curated a collection of premium small-group trips as an invitation to meet and connect with new, like-minded people for once-in-a-lifetime experiences in three categories: Culture Trips, Rail Trips and Private Trips. Our Trips are suitable for both solo travelers, couples and friends who want to explore the world together.

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As always, Damien Boyd delivers an intriguing police procedural crime story, that not only delivers in mystery, but delves into sub-plots that are interesting and unique. Squibbing, I mean I didn’t even know what it was, let alone that Somerset Carnival Clubs squibbing is something unique across the entire planet. Take that and throw in a little Estate Agent tomfoolery and you are in for an enjoyable ride.

A kind of compromise was reached where the establishments were made responsible, along with the tourists, to control the occupancy and ensure it did not exceed the stipulated permit for guests. Gozo Channel were also instructed to dampen the frequency of the ferries or the load factor and commuters were advised, against good practice, to stay in their car for the duration of the voyage. Attention was brought to the fact that this could cause harm and was ill advised. One treasured member of the NHC creative community was award-winning wire-bender Lincoln Rahamut. His work literally held together carnival costumes not just in Notting Hill, but all over the world, and he was one of the few remaining wire-bending craftsmen. Sadly, he passed away this year. On the HR1 form, a type of document that is normally used to give legal notice of redundancies, Carnival UK said there were no redundancies proposed, but added: “Dismissal and re-engagement may be considered if agreement cannot be reached on new terms.”

Both Nautilus International and Carnival UK are working cooperatively towards a negotiated settlement in the interest of all parties.” Figures from the Gozo Tourism Association indicated a significant number of cancellations and a drop in the level of bookings compared to last year. Amongst the restrictions that were imposed over the carnival holiday period, the one that seemed to irk both the tourists and the accommodation owners was the fine that would be imposed on anyone found crowding the accommodation, with a fine of €2,329 for the licence holders and €100.00 each for the guests. Even though we cannot physically be on the road this year, it’s a great opportunity to bring in the historical, cultural and spiritual context to Carnival,” she says. “It’s not going to take away from your experience, it’s just going to add to the experience.” It is, though, an example of enforcement hitting its purpose in ensuring health and safety in the present conditions. It simply is not business as usual right now and will not be for a while. It would be far better if we could pull together and work towards emerging from the pandemic with as few deaths as possible and by helping to support the economy safely. It is simply unfair to bring more casualties onto the whole population for the sake of satisfying a culture of festivity and business opportunities.