This was the pre­vail­ing mind­set of hun­dreds of so­ca lovers who braved rainy con­di­tions to turn out for Patrice Roberts’ free Car­ni­val con­cert at Fla­va Vil­lage, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

I not­ed in the pre­vi­ous col­umn that the au­thor­i­tar­i­an state works with lim­it­ed in­for­ma­tion about the so­cial and eco­nom­ic forces at work, but that com­mu­ni­ties, which are in­clu­sive ...