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SCDF: Buy new tickets to re-enter Carnival shows

April 15, 2008

Patrons of night-time events at the St. Maarten Festival Village during this year’s carnival will have to buy new tickets to re-enter the village once they leave, organizers have announced.

This new rule is the St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation’s way of reducing congestion outside the re-designed Festival Village caused by loitering and increased traffic by patrons leaving and re-entering, President Fabiana Arnell announced.

All visitors to the village, which is the annual epicenter for all Carnival activities, will be searched by gender-appropriate security guards stationed at the entrance. Also handbags and purses may be subject to the search.

Police has also increased its visibility at the Festival Village by installing a police substation allowing for “crack-down” this year in an effort to keep order amidst the “Chaos” of Carnival.

The announcement that patrons will be re-charged for entering the same show after leaving is sparking heavy and justified criticism since the “rule of thumb” is that once you paid for any entrance at nightclubs and/or concerts you receive either a stamp or a wristband so that re-entering is easily controlled. Even the legality of this announcement is being questioned and the Foundation is actually setting itself up for “on the spot trouble” with people that refuse to re-pay to rightfully enter the village for a show they paid already for. Protests and “riots” can be expected from this announcement.

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