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RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Un­der sun­ny skies, colour­ful cos­tumes glit­tered on the streets of San Fer­nan­do on Car­ni­val Tues­day—all un­der the watch­ful eye of a heavy po­lice pres­ence—as mas­quer­aders danced, waved and chipped through the sec­ond city yes­ter­day.

From ear­ly morn­ing, po­lice of­fi­cers lined key points along the route, a vis­i­ble re­minder of height­ened se­cu­ri­ty fol­low­ing Mon­day night’s abrupt shut­down of Mid­night Mas. But de­spite the ten­sion lin­ger­ing from the pre­vi­ous evening, bands rolled out steadi­ly, sig­nalling that South Mas was very much alive.