Carnival capital of Caribbean? Jamaica takes aim at title

Despite carnival not being a native Jamaican celebration, the Ministry of Tourism and local event promoters say they’re aiming to make the local staging the “biggest” in the region.

“When we take anything, we take it to another level, and we add the Jamaican-ness to it, which makes it special and different, and of course, the most important, better,” Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett said during a recent briefing on the economic impact of carnival in Jamaica.

According to a study carried ...