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Cit­i­zens Against Noise Pol­lu­tion Trinidad and To­ba­go (CANPTT) has ac­cused law en­force­ment au­thor­i­ties of fail­ing to up­hold the law fol­low­ing wide­spread re­ports of il­le­gal fire­works ac­tiv­i­ty on Old Year’s Night.

The group said it re­ceived nu­mer­ous com­plaints from com­mu­ni­ties across the coun­try, in­di­cat­ing that fire­works were dis­charged well out­side legal­ly per­mit­ted hours, with lit­tle or no in­ter­ven­tion by au­thor­i­ties.

Loud mu­sic re­port­ed­ly con­tin­ued in­to the ear­ly hours, adding to res­i­dents’ dis­tress.