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  • 9 months ago
Wrecking has resumed in Port of Spain, as the City gears up for Carnival activities. The Port of Spain Mayor is inviting the public to come out for the festivities. Rynessa cutting has more.
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00:00The Port of Spain City Corporation is urging the public to come out in their
00:04numbers and to take part in the carnival festivities but you're going to have to
00:09be careful where you park. Already resumed so that there was wrecking
00:13ongoing in support of the panorama semifinals activity that happened on
00:18Sunday. Our focus as it pertains to towing vehicles is because that are
00:25illegally parked and in particular for carnival there are emergency routes that
00:31have to be maintained for emergency vehicles, ambulances and what have you
00:34and so for carnival Monday and Tuesday in particular that would be the focus
00:40ensuring that those routes remain safe and clear so that we can respond to any
00:46issues which may arise. At this time the corporation has only one wreck operating
00:51with another one expected to come into service by next week. On the security
00:56front the mayor is promising a full turnout in the coming days. There are
01:01many stakeholders that have a responsibility for safety and we are all
01:04committed to ensuring that the carnival is a safe one. On our establishment we
01:08have 200 police officers we have maybe about 160 that are in office and all
01:14officers are recalled for carnival as happens all the time. The city, city
01:20police service has specific responsibility for downtown carnival and
01:24so when you come to the South Quay stage as I've invited all of you to attend
01:28when you come to the South Quay stage you the officers that you see there
01:31primarily will be city police. Among the many festivities downtown Port of Spain
01:36this year is the second edition of the city's pan competition Panamania. It's a
01:42winner-takes-all competition so that all of the bands steel bands that are on the
01:47move they come through the downtown carnival stage they perform and it's
01:51winner-takes-all there's only one prize and so we launched it last year it was
01:55quite successful and so we want to continue it and continue to do whatever
01:59we can to support the culture in any way so we have the kiddies carnival we have
02:05the old mass competition we have our juve morning competition we have a pan
02:10competition as well. The prize last year was $30,000 winner-takes-all
02:17the it will be at least that amount but it may be increased. The mayor's giving
02:23the assurance that the passage of the bands will not pose any logistical
02:26challenge. We're ready for the carnival there's been a lot of planning a lot of
02:31work our public health inspectorate is ready our city police is ready all of
02:36our engineering department all the different departments that have a
02:39responsibility we're ready for the festival we're ready to welcome people
02:43into the city of Portisbou. Vanessa Cutting TV6 News
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