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City bans glass bottles for Carnival
Published:
Friday, January 27, 2012
Anyone found with glass bottles from Carnival Friday to Carnival Tuesday in Port-of-Spain will be fined $1,000 and three months imprisonment. A resolution to prohibit the use and sale of glass bottles during Carnival Friday to Carnival Tuesday has been approved. This was announced at the monthly statutory meeting of the Port-of-Spain City Corporation, City Hall yesterday. Deputy mayor Keron Valentine read the resolution which was approved at a special meeting of Downtown Carnival Committee earlier this week. People’s Partnership councillors Keisha Armstrong and Robin Bynoe voted against it.
Port-of-Spain mayor Louis Lee Sing said not consuming drinks in glass bottles was not peculiar to T&T. He said the corporation met and consulted with manufacturers, mas bands, police and all relevant parties to discuss the matter. Lee Sing said last year the only murder was because of a perpetrator who broke a bottle and stabbed another person to death.
He said the issue of no glass bottles was “real.” Lee Sing said the resolution was adopted as a measure of control against violence. “We have lost too many lives at the expense of violence in fetes,” he added. (RKR)
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