The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF)
and Festivité Carnavalesque De Saint Martin Le comité Festivités
Carnavalesques De Saint Martin (FCDSM) met on Tuesday evening to
discuss areas of cooperation.
"We will be assisting our French-side
counterparts in the coming weeks and months ahead," remarked Stuart
Johnson President of the SCDF. Present at the meeting for the FCDSM
was its President Phillipe Richardson along with his three team
delegation.
The SCDF and FCDSM outlined areas of support in terms of advice,
volunteering and marketing ventures for the respective Carnivals. The
Carnival celebrations of the French-Side will be February 12th to
February 22nd, while the Dutch side Carnival will be April 19th to May
2nd with each having their own line up of pre-events.
"We will do our utmost to continue to be there for our French-side
counterparts whilst continue to foster our working relationship with
other island, such as Aruba, Curacao and Anguilla," remarked Johnson.