As you go out and celebrate at the various events for the Oistins Fish Festival this week, make sure that you take extra steps to keep yourselves and your families safe.
In delivering brief remarks towards the end of a church service held at the Christ Church Parish Church to launch the week of activities for event, the Minister of Health and Constituency Representative for the area of Christ Church South, John Boyce thanked the committee who organized the festival every year - and this year being no exception – for all of their hard work in making sure that the festival is one that “Barbadians can look forward to.
He also told them that he hoped that they would have a safe and enjoyable event as sometimes when persons are busy celebrating, they may not always take into consideration safety precautions.
“I wish them of course a very safe celebration because we are noted nowadays in our communities for not being able only to celebrate, but our lifestyles are negated. When we celebrate, we seem not always to exercise control and I pray that God will exercise in action through us the kind of control that would give this festival the continued reputation that it deserves and I am sure that the fisherman and fisher folk of Oistins look forward to your participation, but also look forward to this participation in a very professional way.”
Boyce also reminded persons of the significance of this festival and stated that it bears particular importance to the men and women who make their living daily from the sea and added that they also take precautions as they go about their duties.
“It is also associated to some extent with the actual beginning of the fishing season in Barbados. That is the relationship. But of course this question of the fishing season isn’t easy at all. It is nowadays tempered by the realities of our environment – the changes in our environment – which we are now only too familiar with.” (PJT)