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Valley Boys counter ‘Way Forward’ claim

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AN apparent division has emerged in the Valley Boys Junkanoo organisation.

Earlier this month, a statement was issued by a group that said a “Way Forward Committee” had been formed and that Trevor Davis had been appointed as interim chair for the organisation with a goal of elections next year.

However, a new statement has now been issued stating that the “Way Forward” group is not affiliated with the official Valley Boys organisation.

The new statement said: “The Valley Boys wishes to reiterate that there has been no change to our leadership despite the false claims in the local media by the group referred to as “The Way Forward” - a proposed New Junkanoo group. The current executive team remains the officially recognised leadership of the Valley Boys.”

The statement continued: “We are currently making preparations for the annual parades and the upcoming Labour Day parade and other summer Junkanoo activities.”

It concluded: “All official Valley Boys communications will come from the chairman, Brian Adderley, or the Valley Boys Communications Team.”

Comments

moncurcool 7 months ago

Is this the same Valley Boys that said they would never rush in junkanoo with the New Providence Junkanoo Corporation running things?

ThisIsOurs 7 months ago

Dont know apparently there are many Valleys Boys, the Official Valley Boys, the Way Forward Valley Boys and possibly the We Een Rushin Valley Boys. It's unfortunate that many of these groups operated with zero transparency. The group receives money, they put on a parade and that's it. No accounting for how the money was spent or who was paid what. I still recall the B group that received funding around ~2016 (what do they get 10k?) and showed up in newspaper.

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