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Valletta Carnival defile' cancelled

The Carnival defile' in Valletta was cancelled this afternoon because of bad weather.

Participants said the decision had been taken mostly because of the strong gusts of wind the floats were likely to encounter as their were driven up Glormu Cassar Avenue towards the Auberge de Castille.

Despite the weather, hundreds of people turned up to enjoy the Carnival atmosphere on the Floriana granaries. However as the showers returned Carnival was effectively over for the day.

One British tourist, Bruce Monaghan said: "Thank you to the wonderful Maltese people who have worked so hard to make the carnival possible. The enthusiasm maintained during such awful weather is a credit to them all."

 

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lydz Camilleri

Feb 10th, 17:10

Il karta rhas mill Fibre... ie FLUS .. BUDGET... dawn il helpers anke min buthom johorgu l flus.. semplici u dil problema jaraha il GVERN umbaghad... ghax ghalieh jista ma jsirx ...

Charlene Bonnici

Feb 10th, 17:56

forsi l-Italja jithallsu izjed mill mizerja ta E 800 li iehdu l Maltin!!!!!!!!! ghandek xi E 15 000 fuq zaqqek jaqaw!!!!!!!!

C Busuttil

Feb 11th, 02:03

Sewwa qed jghid Victor Caruana, pay peanuts get peanutsjew thallas jew taghmelxejn. Dan mhemmx ghalfejn ikunkollu fibre imma bizzejjed biex ma ssirx hsara, hawn festi li ghandhom statwi tal-kartapesta fuq barra li jkollom layer tal-fibreGhalfejn ma nghidux li nriedu kollox fuq platt tal-fidda. L-ewwel darba li thassret il-Festa ta' San Pawl minhabba t-temp u San Pawl aktar importanti mill-Karnival

C Cassar

Feb 10th, 17:16

The weather hasn't changed, just people's perception to over-hyped media stories.

C Cassar

Feb 10th, 17:18

Er, it's supposed to occur before lent. It's also celebrated in Germany and Austria where they have much more extreme weather and yet just get on with it.

Jo Woodall

Feb 10th, 19:18

Read above! Carnival is ALWAYS before Lent....

C Busuttil

Feb 11th, 01:54

When it was held in May it was just floats as nobody wanted to wear costumes in hot weather!!!

besides in May, Carnival will have competition from feasts and other activities and its stands to lose.

The organizers of the feasts in Cospicua, St. Paul Valletta and St. Joseph inRabat don't even dream to move their feasts and they work harder if not harder than the Carnival float builders

fredu debono

Feb 10th, 16:53

kieku kien hawn fejn ipoggu l-karrijiet id-defile kienet se ssir fuq gewwa???? kemm hawn patpit fil-vojt. wara l-karnival dawk il-karrijiet xorta jitkissru.

James Grima

Feb 10th, 17:07

Taf li mhux kulhadd huwa religjuz f'Malta?

C Busuttil

Feb 11th, 01:50

@James Grima

Ghax l-Italja kulhadd religjuz hux ? imma xorta jaghmluh xita jew kesha

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