San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello looks on as corporate secretary of the San Fernando City Corporation Amanda Rangell speaks to reporters during a press conference yesterday.
YVONNE WEBB
WHO gave instructions to prematurely stop the Carnival in the southern city, two hours before the merry monarch ended on Tuesday night? That’s the question San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello wants answered.
He said Snr Supt Zamsheed Mohammed, who assured there would be no interference in the festival unless there was a potential threat, said it wasn’t him.
However, Mohammed told the Newsday the police had to use their discretion and order a shutdown because of several fights on Cipero Street and information that the perpetrators were heading to Coffee Street to carry out similar acts.
Regrello said he was manhandled and assaulted by a junior police officer in plain clothes who also threatened to arrest him, when he stood his ground as the officer tried to stop CAL Skiffle from performing at a competition on Coffee Street, around 10 pm on Tuesday night.
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