Page 24 - The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer Issue-1158-06012017

Page 24 The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer. Friday January 6, 2017 LOCAL NEWS

Grand Masters Wins
Nineth Road March Title

‘Rio 2016’ also won an award for being the first troupe to
launch.
the Largest Troupe
The Troupe of the year winner will
award whereas coup $25,000 in prize money while the
largest troupe wins $300 and the Best
Banker Mas Camp Awarness Group cops $3,000.

captured Best

Awareness Troupe

with ‘A Glimpse of

Basseterre’.

Banker Mas Camp

also captured the title

for King of the Band

with Romaine

Belgrove as well as

Queen of the Band

through Jonelle

Rawlins.

DFX ‘Beauty

Everywhere’ also won

By Loshaun Dixon

Basseterre, St. Kitts - The Grand
Masters and their popular tune ‘Wuk U
Shift’ snapped a four year streak of the
Small Axe band and captured the Sugar
45 Road March title.

Amassing 59 points the chant of ‘Wuk
U Shift’ was played more than any
other song at the various judging points
on Jouvert Morning and Grand Parade
Day to win the group’s ninth road
march title just months after they cele-
brated their 30th anniversary.

The popular chant Wuk U Shift was
released in the first quarter of 2016 and
was a hit since its debut and is a play on
the words Wuk encouraging revellers to
work their bodies with the vocalist
being the foreman on a job site.

The other contenders for the Road
March title was ‘Warrior’ by Small axe
‘At it again’ by Kollision and ‘Bruk it
Set it’ by Akaii.

Small Axe Band who had dominated
the competition for the previous four
years and whom many thought were a
lock to capture their fifth in a row had
to settle for being named ‘Best
Sounding Band’.

EK the Real Right won Best Sounding
DJ while the Nu Vybes band
International easily captured the title
for most popular band.

Tribal Tribal Devils by Red Devils has
took the Best J’ouvert Troupe title for
the second straight year amassing 248.5
points while the Mandinka Warriors
took 1st runner-up position with 222
points and 2nd runner-up went to
Xtreme J’ouvert with 214 points.

On Grand Parade Day Ultra Carnival
who presented ‘Carnival Jungle’ boast-
ed the likes of cricket superstar Chris
Gayle won Best Troupe with 785 points
and were also adjudicated as Most
Punctual Troupe. The runner up spot
went to Fhunn Vybes with 781 points,
and the 2016 winner Banker Mas Camp
had to settle for 2nd runner-up position
with 766 points.

Fhunn Vybes who presented the theme

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