The Toronto Police Service introduced the arrival of carnival season final Thursday morning with the thirty third Annual Toronto Caribbean Carnival Kick-Off Celebration. The occasion, which included a media convention, passed off on the Eastview Neighbourhood Neighborhood Centre.
In partnership with the Eastview Neighbourhood Neighborhood Centre, the Toronto Police Service hosted the celebration and kids’s parade at 86 Blake Avenue and the neighbouring Kempton Howard Park. This yr’s theme was “It Takes a Village.”
Chief Myron Demkiw was joined by Toronto Police Service Board Chair Ann Morgan, in addition to dignitaries and members of neighborhood organizations, who addressed the media and the kids. The occasion was emceed by tv host Akil Augustine.
After the remarks, the Mwendo Dance Group carried out, adopted by a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Chief Demkiw and Akil Augustine then led the kids’s parade alongside a route from Kempton Howard Park to the Blake Housing Complicated and again to Kempton Howard Park.
The police emphasised that the Toronto Caribbean Carnival celebrates the cultural heritage and variety of individuals from the Caribbean and the colourful spirit they convey to Canadian tradition. The parade concluded at roughly 12:15 p.m. at what was once referred to as Eastview Park. The park was renamed in 2007 in honor of Kempton Howard, a neighborhood resident and youth employee who was tragically killed.
