Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters have de­fend­ed the over­all se­cu­ri­ty and fi­nan­cial man­age­ment of Car­ni­val 2026, de­scrib­ing the sea­son as one of the safest in 20 years, de­spite in­ci­dents of vi­o­lence be­ing re­port­ed.

Speak­ing at the post-Cab­i­net me­dia con­fer­ence at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre in St Ann’s yes­ter­day, De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge said the event will be re­mem­bered for its strong se­cu­ri­ty record.

“I think this Car­ni­val will go down as one of the safest in the last two decades,” Sturge said, cred­it­ing what he de­scribed as metic­u­lous plan­ning by Gov­ern­ment and the na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ap­pa­ra­tus.