D’Midas Worldwide NY cops high prizes in Caribbean Carnival 2022 – Caribbean Life

Glen A. Fahie Turnbull, the co-band chief and president of the Brooklyn-based D’Midas Worldwide New York, had predicted that his mas band would seize the highest prizes within the 2022 West Indian American Carnival.

“We don’t come out except we come out to win,” Fahie Turnbull, a local of Tortola, British Virgin Islands (BVI), informed Caribbean Life, as he ready costumes at his mas camp on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn, forward of the huge Caribbean Carnival Parade on Labor Day, Monday.

“We don’t put together mas to come back final,” added Fahie Turnbull, because the Trinidadian couple, Horace and Cheryl Johnson, co-band leaders, assisted with the manufacturing.

Effectively, on Wednesday, Fahie Turnbull’s prediction got here true, as D’Midas Worldwide NY copped the highest prizes on this 12 months’s carnival.

The West Indian American Day Carnival Affiliation (WIADCA), the Brooklyn-based organizer of the annual spectacle, introduced that D’Midas Worldwide New York gained Junior Carnival Band of the 12 months 2022, Junior King of Carnival, joint Grownup Band of the 12 months and Grownup King of Carnival.

For Junior Carnival Band 2022, D’Midas Worldwide NY portrayed “Then and Now, D’Previous, D’Current and D’Future.”

Vincentian Francis DeSilva — who portrayed “Pitch Lake on Hearth,” paying homage to final 12 months’s explosive volcanic eruptions of La Soufriere Volcano in St. Vincent and the Grenadines — gained Junior King of Carnival for D’Midas Worldwide.

“It’s good!” exclaimed De Silva tersely, when requested, throughout Monday’s parade on Brooklyn’s sprawling Japanese Parkway, how he felt about portraying “Pitch Lake on Hearth.”

Close by, Fahie Turnbull himself carried an enormous costume, “The Magnificent”, ultimately successful Grownup King of Carnival 2022 for D’Midas Worldwide NY.

“It’s good,” Fahie Turnbull informed Caribbean Life then. “I’m posing for photos at this time.”

D’Midas Internationaal NY additionally shared Grownup Band of 12 months 2022 with SkyMaxx, Sesame Carnival, Cocoa Diamond, Antoine Worldwide and Branches/Mango Tree Productions, in keeping with WIADCA.

WIADCA additionally introduced that Madison Jones – portraying “Reine de Beaute”, introduced by Kaisokah Mas – snatched the Junior Queen of Carnival 2022.

Ann Nelson, portraying Antoine Worldwide’s “African Queen”, gained Grownup Queen of Carnival 2022, WIADCA stated.

The five-day, in-person West Indian American Carnival returned this 12 months after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Monday, 1000’s of masqueraders and revelers converged on Japanese Parkway for the mammoth Carnival Parade, which culminated the five-day extravaganza.

Thousands and thousands extra watched the pageantry from ubiquitous police barricades, with soca, reggae, kompa, zouk and different Caribbean rhythms filling the air, as WIADCA celebrated 55 years of Caribbean Carnival in New York.