NEW YORK.- Saint Lucian nationals joined their Caribbean friends and relatives to celebrate the spirit of Caribbean culture on Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway this past Labor Day Monday for the 42nd West Indian American Day Labor Day Carnival Parade, where Caribbean culture, cuisine and camaraderie took center stage for the day Revelers in the carnival spirit in New York.

"It was yet another beautiful spectacle of the creative Caribbean spirit in New York City," said Lorine St. Jules of the Saint Lucia Tourist Board in New York, who joined fellow West Indians and Friends of the Caribbean for the customary spirited festivities of the holiday weekend.

Saint Lucia was represented on the parkway by the Karma carnival band whose revelers kept Saint Lucian flags flying high in their adopted homeland. And of course, as the weather chills down in New York after Labor Day, the message to New Yorkers is, "You've seen the Caribbean in New York, now that summer is over, it's time to keep up the heat - and see Saint Lucia and the Caribbean yourself."