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Elaborate, colorful, and sometimes skimpy costumed celebrants strutted their stuff during the 42nd Annual West Indian American Carnival yesterday. The parade, which celebrates Caribbean culture, is the city's biggest parade, attracting millions to Eastern Parkway. One paradegoer told NY1, "It's very lively and it's very colorful. Multi-cultural, what can I say, it's people all over the world. Everybody gets together and just embraces each other," while one dancer explained to the Daily News, "We wine and we gyrate to the pulsating music. You're getting loose, you're feeling no hangups, nothing, no inhibitions. It's just about having a good time."

The Daily News draws attention to Governor David Paterson's trip to the Caribbean next week. The agenda: On 11/5, he flies to St. Maarten for the Caribbean Multi-National Business Conference, where he is delivering the keynote on on 11/7; on 11/8, it's Puerto Rico for conference sponsored by PR's Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task force before coming back on 11/10. While Paterson's aides say he will talk with "Caribbean leaders about ways to improve trade," Assembly minority leader James Tedisco clucked, "I think the economic well-being of New York State might be more important." At any rate, Paterson is feeling proud of himself for warning abut the economy since the spring. He said, "When I asked the Legislature to come back and give me more money to try to tide us over to the next fiscal year, I was referred to in print as 'Chicken Little,' 'someone who says the sky is falling,' 'misestimating the revenues,' 'an alarmist.'"