There were sev­er­al calls for peo­ple to go to the stands since peo­ple were be­ing pick­pock­et­ed and tram­pled up­on. The house an­nounc­er said the show would not go on un­less they moved to safer points. The show did. Spe­cial ad­vis­er to William Munro, Gre­go­ry Fer­nan­des said peo­ples' safe­ty was para­mount and they on­ly catered for about 35,000. He said: "The show was suc­cess­ful. I call it the Su­per­Bowl of the Caribbean. There was a large turnout; about 35,000-oth­ers would say it would be about 45,000. "But we didn't want to print any­thing near what peo­ple are es­ti­mat­ing. We built four sets of gates to en­sure there was easy en­try. There were some chal­lenges be­cause of the size of the crowd. We want to en­sure peo­ples' safe­ty. "I think the artistes put out quite a lot in putting their pre­sen­ta­tion. We in­tend to do a re­view and see there is room of prod­uct."

Ku­dos for PP, Guardian Me­dia

He laud­ed the moves the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship had made to­ward cul­ture. Com­ment­ing on the boo­ing of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, he said: "I think it was a re­flec­tion of what was go­ing on in oth­er mat­ters. This Gov­ern­ment has done an ex­cel­lent job. CPF will work with them and we are start­ing to see what the ben­e­fits of cul­ture would be like." He laud­ed Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed for their ster­ling con­tri­bu­tion.