There are claims that con­struc­tion of the Grand Stand and North Stand at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah is in con­tra­ven­tion of the orig­i­nal con­di­tions for use of the land. The sug­ges­tion has how­ev­er been dis­missed by Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) Chair­man, Ken­ny de Sil­va. His­to­ri­an Michael An­tho­ny says by agree­ment no per­ma­nent struc­tures should be erect­ed on the land and do­ing so is in vi­o­la­tion of the terms and con­di­tions of the pur­chase agree­ment. An­tho­ny said: "When the heirs of Hen­ri Peschi­er sold the par­cel of land known as Par­adise Sug­ar Es­tate to Eng­lish Gov­er­nor, Sir Ralph Wood­ford, in 1817 it was for the stip­u­lat­ed pur­pose that it was to be used for the recre­ation of town folk and the pas­turage of cat­tle."

For­mer Na­tion­al Al­liance for Re­con­struc­tion (NAR) Food Pro­duc­tion Min­is­ter, Lin­coln My­ers, said: "With each pass­ing day, we de­grade the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah seem­ing­ly un­aware of the dam­age we do to our­selves." He added: "I re­gret not be­ing able to im­ple­ment some of the (1989 Sa­van­nah) Com­mit­tee's rec­om­men­da­tions for the restora­tion, im­prove­ment and preser­va­tion of the Sa­van­nah." An­tho­ny said he re­called an in­ci­dent in the 1940s when dur­ing a foot­ball match, an Aubrey Jones ob­ject­ed to plans by the Colo­nial Gov­ern­ment to erect wire fenc­ing and bar­ri­cades in the Sa­van­nah. But de Sil­va has said the Grand Stand was the on­ly per­ma­nent struc­ture con­struct­ed.

"The Grand Stand is le­gal," de Sil­va ex­plained. "The North Stand is a tem­po­rary stand. The Grand Stand has been around for 207 years be­fore they broke it down." "We just re­built the Grand Stand in 2011," de Sil­va said. "Those bound­aries did not over­step the bound­aries al­lowed for the pad­dock area of the Grand Stand." Na­tion­al Car­ni­val De­vel­op­ment Foun­da­tion (NCDF) Pres­i­dent Ma­hen­dra Ma­haraj said that there was no rea­son to break down the last Grand Stand as it was struc­tural­ly sound. "It was a per­fect­ly good struc­ture," Ma­haraj said. "It's the peo­ple who have to pay for the poor hind­sight of the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion. That is the penal­ty for poor de­ci­sion mak­ing. "What we're see­ing is the pre­vi­ous regimes's $700 mil­lion Ude­cott Na­tion­al Car­ni­val and En­ter­tain­ment Cen­tre mon­stros­i­ty be­ing re­placed by Gyp­sy's mul­ti-mil­lion mon­stros­i­ty," one cul­tur­al ac­tivist said. Up to press time, Min­is­ter of Arts and Mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism, Win­ston "Gyp­sy" Pe­ters and Port-of-Spain May­or Louis Lee Sing, were un­avail­able for com­ment or re­turn calls made to them.