The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says that as of Fri­day morn­ing, not a sin­gle per­son had been charged for fire­works-re­lat­ed of­fences since the new law came in­to force.

The in­for­ma­tion was pro­vid­ed by the TTPS Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Unit in re­sponse to ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia on the en­force­ment of the Gov­ern­ment’s new fire­works law, which came in­to ef­fect on De­cem­ber 19.

When the leg­is­la­tion was passed, ques­tions were raised about its ef­fec­tive­ness, par­tic­u­lar­ly in re­la­tion to en­force­ment by the TTPS.