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Point Fortin May­or Clyde James has dis­missed re­ports that some of the biggest Bor­ough Day events have been scrapped, as­sur­ing res­i­dents and vis­i­tors that the cel­e­bra­tions are still on and will roll out as planned.

The Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion al­so con­firmed that Bor­ough Day fes­tiv­i­ties will run from April 10-May 3, cli­max­ing with Bor­ough Day on May 2. Ru­mours cir­cu­lat­ing on­line over the week­end had sug­gest­ed that pop­u­lar sta­ples such as J’Ou­vert, the street pa­rade and Pan on the Move, along with sev­er­al long-stand­ing fetes, had been can­celled.

“These claims are false and mis­lead­ing,” James said in a state­ment, adding that the cor­po­ra­tion was forced to re­spond af­ter in­ac­cu­rate on­line search­es and spec­u­la­tive posts gained trac­tion.