This Sunday, February 20, the people of the Guadeloupe carnival were in the streets of Pointe-à-Pitre for the second time. If last Sunday, we had the impression that the revellers and spectators were looking for the usual “vibrations” after two years of abstinence, this time, the temperature was immediately very hot during the most popular festival of the archipelago. Shouts, laughter, applause and comments of the numerous public were coming from all sides while the smartphones photographed or filmed the different groups that followed one another. It was as if the Covid-19 pandemic – which has killed 899 people (Reuters figures) and is still claiming lives every week – had never happened. “Show must go on!”, despite Covid-19…
