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Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion chair­man Win­ston “Gyp­sy” Pe­ters says the fa­tal shoot­ing in St James and the stab­bing death of a teen box­er in San­gre Grande on Tues­day, as well as the in­ci­dent where a man was crushed by a mu­sic truck in San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day, did not mar Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, Pe­ters not­ed that al­though the in­ci­dents were trag­ic, they were small in com­par­i­son to the larg­er events.

“I don’t think that it marred any­thing, I think there were in­ci­dents that hap­pened that should not have hap­pened, but any­thing that you do, we are hu­man be­ings... and I think that some­times we for­get that any­thing could go wrong at any time... you can­not say be­cause you had two in­ci­dents or three in­ci­dents that some­thing has marred any­thing. We mag­ni­fy things too much in this place... it is un­for­tu­nate but this did not mar any­thing,” Pe­ters said.