Rain and rhythm in Point Fortin’s J’Ouvert

As the first beats of so­ca thun­dered through the ear­ly morn­ing dark, Point Fortin came alive with colour, chaos and cul­ture.

The 2025 Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions, mark­ing the cli­max of the bor­ough’s 45th-an­niver­sary fes­tiv­i­ties, trans­formed the sleepy oil town in­to a liv­ing, puls­ing can­vas of cre­ativ­i­ty and com­mu­ni­ty spir­it.

By 4 am, the streets were thick with bod­ies—danc­ing, win­ing, and chip­ping to the hyp­not­ic thump of mu­sic trucks rum­bling through the South­ern Main Road. Paint, pow­der, and hands flew through the air in joy­ful re­bel­lion against the or­di­nary. And then came the rain.