The imminent arrival of the Carnival season in Trinidad & Tobago would appear to be posing challenges for the twin-island Republic’s Police Force on account of the seeming emergence of some of the customary ‘windup’ revelry that usually precedes the full-blown main course.
Earlier this week, sections of the media in Port of Spain were reporting that the country’s reputedly ‘tough-as-nails’ Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith, had launched an investigation into a weekend public event which a report in the Trinidad Guardian said had “all the features of a Carnival band launch… in other words, a “public party,” and which would have transgressed the protocols associated with staying safe in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The revelers at the event are deemed to have transgressed Section 4 (1) (d) of the country’s Public Health [2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)] Regulations, 2021, which states that it is an offence to hold public parties or public fetes and prohibits the holding of public parties at this time. It appears that video footage of the event acquired by the police showed patrons dancing to music inside the country’s Queen’s Hall.
