Police close crowded supermarket, block off promenade
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Employees from the Port of Spain Corporation employess place barriers around the Brian Lara Promenade in Port of Spain on Saturday, to prevent citizens from gathering. - Angelo Marcelle
POLICE on Saturday were forced to use their heavy hand and temporarily closed a supermarket after customers failed to comply with covid19 protocols issued for supermarkets.
Wes Bees Supermarket in Diego Martin was temporarily shut down after a video circulated on Facebook with complaints of overcrowding outside the grocery.
Supermarkets operators have urged for only one shopper per family to reduce crowds and can only allow half of the number of people it can accommodate at any one time in keeping with new health protocols which came into effect on Saturday.
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Mayor: Only people traffic on the Avenue soon
MELISSA DOUGHTY AND SHANE SUPERVILLE
PEOPLE CAN look forward to the pedestrianisation of Ariapita Avenue, Port of Spain, soon.
The avenue will be closed to traffic and be only accessible to people at certain times, Port of Spain Mayor Joel Martinez told Newsday on Friday.
Martinez said this and other plans are some of the ways the city is moving along with its revitalisation plans.
He spoke with Newsday after the launch of the Commonwealth Garden at Wildflower Park, Serpentine Road, St Clair.
Last year the Prime Minister announced plans to revitalise the capital, including the development of Memorial Plaza, the Salvatori Building site and Piccadilly Street.
2020 Carnival prize $ jumping up in NCC, PoS Corp spat
File photo: NCC chairman Winston Gypsy Peters.
About $378,000 in prize money from the 2020 Downtown Carnival competition is yet to be paid.
On Saturday the TT Carnival Bands Association (TTCBA) sent out a release calling on Port of Spain Mayor Joel Martinez and the Downtown Carnival Committee to pay up. It is a firm belief of the members that the owner or administrator of the Downtown Carnival Competition has a moral obligation to pay prize money to winners of Carnival 2020.
TTCBA president Rosalind Gabriel told Newsday because of covid19 cancelling Carnival 2021, receiving the prize money would greatly help the struggling band leaders.