For the second year in a row, the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) staged a highly successful Oistins Comes to Brooklyn event in the heart of the diaspora community in Brooklyn, New York, yesterday.

A crowd estimated at more than 15,000 attended the event, which featured everything Bajan, including food, music, fashion, beauty products and cooking products, among others.

Minister of Tourism Ian Gooding-Edghill, BTMI Chief Executive Officer Andrea Franklin, Chief Product Development Officer Marsha Alleyne, and North American Director Peter Mayers were in attendance.