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Caribbean, USA: West Indian Day Parade

Categories: Caribbean, Latin America, North America, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St.Kitts & Nevis, Trinidad & Tobago, U.S.A., Arts & Culture, Migration & Immigration, Politics

Will, a Dutch student newly arrived at New York's Columbia University, takes in last Monday's West Indian Day Parade: “A giant Caribbean parade which takes place in Brooklyn on the Labour Day Holiday . . . . The first part of it was made use of by American politicians (Congressional midterms are comming up here in November) and corporations, although sometimes the difference between the two was not clear. [1]