As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Garvin Hen­ry, who over­sees the North-West area in­clud­ing the Port-of-Spain and West­ern Di­vi­sions, said that de­spite se­vere traf­fic con­ges­tion fol­low­ing the Stink + Dut­ty fete ear­ly Sat­ur­day, mea­sures were de­ployed to mit­i­gate the dis­rup­tion.

The event, usu­al­ly host­ed at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA), was re­lo­cat­ed to the Ch­aguara­mas He­li­port this year fol­low­ing the gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to ban cul­tur­al events at sport­ing fa­cil­i­ties.

Af­ter the fete, large crowds packed the West­ern Main Road, with some pa­trons stuck in traf­fic for hours be­fore the streets were cleared. Sev­er­al busi­ness­es in Ch­aguara­mas and Care­nage re­port­ed­ly re­mained closed due to in­ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty.