Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Cul­prits at­tempt­ed to en­ter Wednes­day’s Hy­att Lime fete with fake tick­ets and coun­ter­feit hand­bands, but none were suc­cess­ful, Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (UDe­COTT) chair­man Shankar Bidaisee con­firmed yes­ter­day. There have al­so been no re­ports of cy­ber-at­tacks to ob­tain fete tick­ets.

Bidaisee, who at­tend­ed the fete and pur­chased his VIP Di­a­mond Tick­et for $4,617.20 out of his own funds, said, “As oc­curs an­nu­al­ly, there were in­stances of peo­ple try­ing to en­ter with fake tick­ets and hand­bands, which are used to ver­i­fy pur­chase. But there are no re­ports that any­one suc­ceed­ed. Mea­sures are be­ing stepped up to pre­vent these in­creas­ing­ly in­no­v­a­tive at­tempts.”