Photographs from Le Carnaval des Tout-Petits in Cap-Haïtien on Feb. 12, 2026.
CAP-HAÏTIEN — For 3 days of carnival in Cap-Haïtien, performers repeated the identical costumes and skits — lots of them an identical to final 12 months’s. Zombies ran by means of the streets, vampires screamed and royal {couples} marched hand in hand.
By the third day, many revelers mentioned they have been uninterested in watching the identical parade. Round city, residents described this 12 months’s festivities as missing novelty and allure.
One occasion, nevertheless, stood out.
On Feb. 12, Le Carnaval des Tout-Petits — the Youngsters’s Carnival — introduced colour and renewed pleasure to the streets.
Little women sporting brightly coloured folkloric attire and glittery make-up danced alongside the parade route. Others, dressed as princesses, stood within the backs of pickup vans, waving and blowing kisses as autos slowly rolled by means of the slender streets of Cap-Haïtien.
Spectators watched in awe, pulling out their telephones to seize photographs and movies.
Establishment Saint-François Xavier, an all-girls Catholic college, organized one of many youngsters’s parades. College students marched from Place d’Armes to their campus, about two-tenths of a mile away.
Listed here are pictures from the festivities.
Two women wearing blue and purple at Le Carnaval des Tout-Petits in Cap-Haïtien on Feb. 12, 2026. Picture by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Occasions A princess from the again of a pickup truck. Picture by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Occasions College students from Establishment Saint-François Xavier, an all-girls Catholic college, stand alongside a street earlier than the beginning of Le Carnaval des Tout-Petits in Cap-Haïtien on Feb. 12, 2026. Picture by Onz Chéry/The Haitian OccasionsA younger woman in awe throughout Le Carnaval des Tout-Petits parade in Cap-Haïtien on Feb. 12, 2026. Picture by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Occasions Zombies carrying a coffin for the third straight day throughout carnival in Cap-Haïtien on Feb. 17, 2026. Picture by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Occasions Princesses waving and blowing kisses at carnival revelers in Cap-Haïtien on Feb. 12, 2026. Picture by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Occasions Just a little woman with glittery make-up is being carried. Picture by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian Occasions Two college students from Establishment Saint-François Xavier take part in Le Carnaval des Tout-Petits parade in Cap-Haïtien on Feb. 12, 2026. Picture by Onz Chéry/ The Haitian OccasionsA performer in black and purple walks alongside the boulevard in the course of the third day of carnival in Cap-Haïtien on Feb. 17, 2026. Picture by Onz Chéry/The Haitian Occasions College students return to Establishment Saint-François Xavier after Le Carnaval des Tout-Petits in Cap-Haïtien on Feb. 12, 2026. Picture by Onz Chéry/The Haitian Occasions
