Trinidad and Tobago | Glass bottles to be banned for Carnival 2020

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):

The Ministry of National Security says that it will be implementing a ban on glass bottles during the upcoming Carnival season.

During a recent meeting, officials from the ministry said talks surrounding the proposed ban progressed positively held discussions with key Carnival stakeholders.

The meet­ing fo­cused on a flex­i­ble en­force­ment ap­proach as well as im­ple­men­ta­tion con­sid­er­a­tions.

“All par­tic­i­pants in the con­sul­ta­tion process ex­pressed their full sup­port for the in­tend­ed ban on glass bot­tles on Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day, agree­ing that the thrust will cre­ate a safer and clean­er en­vi­ron­ment,” said a statement from the ministry.

The ban on glass bottles is ex­pect­ed to take ef­fect from 4 a.m. on Car­ni­val Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 24, 2020, to mid­night on Car­ni­val Tues­da,y Feb­ru­ary 25, 2020.

The na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­istry added that a pub­lic-ed­u­ca­tion dri­ve on the col­lab­o­ra­tive ini­tia­tive, ti­tled 'Clean Scene, Safe Scene', will be launched in the com­ing days.