Saint Lucia Edition
World Safe Crossing Day leads today's complete edition for Saint Lucia.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for roads, crosswalks, signals, ferry landings, station platforms, and the care people owe one another in motion.
Canadian Halloween is American Halloween with colder weather. The costumes are the same but the coats go over them. The little ninja who spent an hour on his mask is now a ninja in a parka and nobody can tell who he is. The pillowcase full of candy will last until November 10. The candy tax levied by parents is real and it is not optional.
The Jounen Kwéyòl is the biggest Creole celebration in Saint Lucia, and it is held annually on the last Sunday of October. The Jounen Kwéyòl is not just a celebration. It is a declaration of the Saint Lucian identity, and the tradition is to speak Kwéyòl (the Creole language of Saint Lucia), eat Kwéyòl food (breadfruit, green fig, saltfish, and bouyon), and dance Kwéyòl music (the quadrille, the bele, and the la rose). The Jounen Kwéyòl is the most important cultural event in Saint Lucia, and the tradition is to wear the traditional Creole dress (the madras), and to celebrate the Creole culture with pride and joy.
You find that seabirds including frigatebirds and boobies are the most distinctive wildlife native to Wallis and Futuna's islands. You notice that residents commonly keep pigs, chickens, and dogs as working and companion animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.