Chester Sam­bra­no

Lead Ed­i­tor–News­gath­er­ing

chester.sam­bra­no@guardian.co.tt

Fire­One Fire­works has wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s move to in­tro­duce the Sum­ma­ry Of­fences (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025, say­ing the pro­posed reg­u­la­tions align with its long-stand­ing fo­cus on pub­lic safe­ty and re­spon­si­ble cel­e­bra­tions.

In a re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day, the com­pa­ny said it sup­ports ef­forts to pro­tect vul­ner­a­ble groups and bring greater struc­ture to the sec­tor.

The com­pa­ny said fire­works use in T&T has changed sig­nif­i­cant­ly over the past 30 years, when cul­tur­al prac­tices such as bam­boo burst­ing, car­bide ex­plo­sions and home­made py­rotech­nics caused se­ri­ous in­juries and wide­spread noise.

It said per­sis­tent pub­lic ed­u­ca­tion, along with cer­ti­fied con­sumer fire­works, helped guide the coun­try to­wards safer and more con­trolled al­ter­na­tives.

It added that its an­nu­al Box­ing Day sale en­sures the pub­lic can ac­cess le­gal, cer­ti­fied prod­ucts in­stead of il­le­gal al­ter­na­tives.

Mean­while, Fire­pow­er Fire­works al­so wel­comed the de­ci­sion to reg­u­late fire­works use.

In its state­ment, the com­pa­ny said it sup­ports the move as a re­spon­si­ble cor­po­rate en­ti­ty and a lead­ing li­censed im­porter, whole­saler and re­tail­er of fire­works.

It said the reg­u­la­tions are nec­es­sary to pro­mote safe­ty and min­imise dis­rup­tions to com­mu­ni­ties.

Fire­pow­er said it has al­ways ad­vo­cat­ed for re­spon­si­ble fire­works use and will con­tin­ue to work with au­thor­i­ties to en­sure its prod­ucts are used safe­ly and en­joy­ably.

The com­pa­ny said it has re­viewed the leg­is­la­tion and be­gun ad­just­ing its op­er­a­tions to com­ply with the law.

It added that it sup­ports the Gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts to ad­dress the is­sue and looks for­ward to con­tin­u­ing its work to pro­mote a safe and en­joy­able en­vi­ron­ment for all.