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Organisers of the recently concluded Dancehall Week 2025 has expressed disappointment with the Police over the treatment of the authorization and subsequent parade permit requested for the second annual staging of the street parade in Kingston on Sunday March 2.
They say, that after months of planning and communication regarding the route and scheduled start time; consultation with a team of officers cited laws in Jamaica prohibiting marches outside of 6am to 6pm.
Dancehall Week's road march was scheduled for 5pm-8pm.
However, the organisers say the police insisted that the Dancehall Street parade must take place within the stipulated hours or face prosecution.
Conceding that the law does exist, the organizers of the Dancehall Week street parade are claiming classism as the reason their parade was bound by the existing law, pointing to how different carnival events are exempt from the same law.
The Dancehall Street Parade was eventually staged beginning at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Center, one hour before the advertised start of 5:00 pm, causing some patrons to miss out on the parade.
-SAPPHIRE
