Did Carnival Start As A UDP Event?

And while the political directorate and the cultural apparatus all bend the knee to a deserving cultural centerpiece - history tells us that the Carnival Road March started out as an instrumentality of the then UDP - with key direction from Henry Young. The event was seen as a way to augment the 10th - which the UDP embraced but the PUP have always rejected as a myth.

But, now all that is forgotten and Fonseca says it isn't even a thought:

The Belize Women for Cultural Preservation who started the Carnival were June Singh, Crystal Vernon, Maude Williams, Alice Williams and Myrtle Flowers.