While Port-of-Spain may­or Louis Lee Sing main­tained his stance that glass bot­tles would not be al­lowed in the city he ad­mit­ted that there was no law to sup­port a ban on glass bot­tle prod­ucts. He said, how­ev­er, that he was con­fi­dent that leg­is­la­tion to stop peo­ple from en­ter­ing the city with glass bot­tles would be soon in com­ing. Lee Sing said this while re­spond­ing to ques­tions from me­dia dur­ing a news con­fer­ence yes­ter­day at City Hall, Port-of-Spain. Last month, Lee Sing an­nounced that glass bot­tles would not be al­lowed in the city on Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day.

The is­sue raised pub­lic con­cern and some ques­tion his au­thor­i­ty to im­ple­ment such a ban. Po­lice Sergeant Wayne Mys­tar at a news con­fer­ence ear­li­er this week con­firmed that there was no law against bring­ing glass bot­tles in­to the city.

Lee Sing con­firmed that the is­sue was in the hands of the cor­po­ra­tion's le­gal team as they need­ed to en­sure all was done in ac­cor­dance with the law. "There is no law at present to ban glass bot­tles from the city," said Lee Sing.