Cops seek to ban glass bottles for Carnival 2014
Last year, Port of Spain Mayor Louis Lee Sing called for a ban of glass bottles in the capital city for Carnival, but then Local Government Minister Chandresh Sharma said Lee Sing's actions were not within the law......
Raymond Craig, Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations...spoke with reporters at the Police Administration Building, Sackville Street, Port of Spain, said the reason the ban was not enforced this year was due to the late discussions with stakeholders and assured that for next year there would be earlier talks on the matter.......
"There will be an early engagement with the stakeholders. The whole engagement was too late for it to be implemented this year, and we intend to engage earlier next year to ensure that we have everything in place so that there would be no glass bottles to be used for 2014," said Craig.......