The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) says it has found no breach­es of en­vi­ron­men­tal re­quire­ments in works be­ing car­ried out at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah ahead of In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions, as crit­i­cism grows over the gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­lo­cate the pa­rade.

The EMA said it in­ves­ti­gat­ed con­cerns raised pub­licly about the works and found that they were tem­po­rary in na­ture and did not breach its reg­u­la­tions.

Dur­ing a site vis­it, EMA of­fi­cers ob­served two tem­po­rary ramps built over box drains and a tem­po­rary stage sur­round­ed by a perime­ter fence.