Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

More than 200 po­lice of­fi­cers and mem­bers of the De­fence Force will be in San Fer­nan­do this Sat­ur­day for the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed J’Ou­vert and Pan and Pow­der events.

They are part of the City Month ac­tiv­i­ties un­der the theme, Now You Know San­do, which are be­ing held by the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion in cel­e­bra­tion of its 36-year city sta­tus.

Speak­ing at the press con­fer­ence at the May­or’s Box in Skin­ner Park yes­ter­day, San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris said, “I will ex­pect a safe, clean, fun en­vi­ron­ment in San Fer­nan­do where it is that we bask in rev­el­ry and we cel­e­brate 36 years sen­si­bly in the City of San Fer­nan­do.”

Pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer Wendy H Lewis al­so as­sured that they have “ze­ro is­sues where se­cu­ri­ty is con­cerned,” so they an­tic­i­pate a safe J’Ou­vert and Pan and Pow­der ex­pe­ri­ence.

Tourism Min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell and PanTrin­ba­go chair­man Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore are ex­pect­ed to at­tend the Pan and Pow­der event, which is be­ing held for the first time in San Fer­nan­do. J’Ou­vert will kick off at 4 am while Pan and Pow­der will com­mence at 6 pm. Both events are be­ing spon­sored by Carib and An­gos­tu­ra.

The may­or said he did not an­tic­i­pate any is­sues with the pub­lic and the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty re­gard­ing traf­fic re­stric­tions.

Lewis said, “All re­stric­tions have been put in place and have been guid­ed by the TTPS. They have gone through the route on more than one oc­ca­sion, and they are the ones who would have pro­vid­ed the ad­vice in terms of what street we close off and what ac­cess would be gained.”

The may­or said they were al­so twin­ning with Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, and they have planned a fete match and cur­ry duck com­pe­ti­tion.

Com­ment­ing on Point Fortin Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions, he said, “It’s a month of cel­e­bra­tion that stim­u­lates the mi­cro­econ­o­my of that par­tic­u­lar area in our coun­try, and it gives the op­por­tu­ni­ty for pro­mot­ers and small busi­ness­es to flour­ish dur­ing that time, and I think that any type of eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty gar­nered from events like this is some­thing that we can all ben­e­fit from.”

Some of the oth­er events in­clude the Mil­i­tary and He­roes Pa­rade and the Civic Re­cep­tion, where out­stand­ing cit­i­zens will be award­ed. The cel­e­bra­tions will cul­mi­nate on De­cem­ber 7 with the May­or’s Char­i­ty Ball.