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HISTORY

Crop Over, a five-week summer
festival, is Barbados' most popular
and colourful festival. It's origins
can be traced back to the 1780's, a
time when Barbados was the world's
largest producer of sugar. At the
end of the sugar season, there was
always a huge celebration to mark
the culmination of another
successful sugar cane harvest - the
Crop Over celebration.

As the sugar industry in Barbados
declined, so too did the Crop Over
festival and in the 1940's the
festival was terminated completely.
However, the festival was revived
in 1974 and other elements of
Barbadian culture were infused to
make the extravaganza that exists
today ..... an event that attracts
thousands of people from across
the globe.

The festival begins with the
Ceremonial Delivery of the Last
Canes and the crowning of the King
and Queen of the Festival - the
most productive male and female
cane cutters of the season.
CROPOVER SAFETY

DO wear light, comfortable clothes
DO wear comfortable shoes, eg sneakers
DO carry ID with you at all times
DO try the local cuisine from the roadside
DO carry and use lots of sunscreen
DO drink lots of fluids
DO ask for assistance if you need it
DON’T flash large sums of cash
DON’T wear lots of expensive jewellery
DON’T walk in dark areas alone
In Fetes
DO walk with a waving implement (rag,
handkerchief, flag etc)
DO have a cell phone with you at all times, or
a local phone card
DO carry a condom just in case
DO make firm transportation arrangements
prior to going to the fete

In the Band
DO carry with you a pouch or little bag that
you can walk with, secured in a safe spot on
your person
Tylenol/Panadol/Advil or your painkiller of
choice
The results in the 98.1 The One Banks Sweet Soca Competition are:

1. Hot Sun and Riddim - TC

2. What We Do - Natahlee

3. I in Dat - Mikey

4. Come Out - Mr. Dale

5. Back It Up - Blood
The results in the Mount Gay and LIME Party Monarch Competition are:

Tent Artiste

1. De Big Show - TC - Hot Sun and Riddim

2. De Big Show - Natahlee - What WE Do

3. De Big Show - Red Plastic Bag - Something is Happening

4. Celebration Time - Khiomal - Kaution

5. Headliners - Mr. Dale - We Come To Party
The Results in the Banks and LIME Pic-O-De-Crop Competition are:

Tent Artiste

1. De Big Show – Red Plastic Bag

2. De Big Show – John King

3. Headliners – Blood

4. House of Soca – Sir Ruel

5. De Big Show - Sheldon Hope

6. All Stars - Adrian Clarke

7. Headliners – Bumba

8. House of Soca – Hee Haw

9. De Big Show- TC

10. All Stars - Colin Spencer
                              GRAND KADOOMENT  - Order of Bands

Band Name Band Leader Order

*Walk Holy Band Kathy Weekes A
*Blue Box Cart  Raymond Gill  B
*Ryvalers Inter-Parish BN. Phillippa Aimey  C


1. Wednesday 2000 Mackie Holder

2. Power x 4  Chetwin Stewart

3. Jump Promotions Renee Ratcliffe

4. Bush Hall Masqueraders Roseann Lewis

5. Baje International Corey Knight

*Caribbean HIV/AIDS Al.  Teddy Leon D

6. Radikal Amanda Forde

7. Youth Exlosion  Quincy Jones 7

8. Ooutraje Trevor Chase 8

9. Hidden Treasures Gwyneth Squires 9

10. One Nig Family Maria King

11. Mas Explosion  Neal Robinson

12. Rebel Vibes The Band Andre Eljas

13. Barbados Back Den Betty West

14. Ravurz Kadooment Band Lyndon Clarke

15. C&W Contact Anthony Layne

16. Berger Boyz Edward Toppin

17. De Renegades Doug Hoyte

18. Vision Guyz & Galz Charles Clarke

* Parading BUT Not being judged   
CROPOVER 2010