‘Socametrics’ — Jump, wave, and pay

The streets of Kingston were filled with revellers dancing in the soca economy as Sunday turned to Monday. Behind the costumes and road-march revelry, a more sober calculation is taking shape – whether there were fewer revellers, less spend, and more tension, highlighted by a double shooting at a final fete and whether carnival was affected like the wider economy by the fallout from Hurricane Melissa last October.