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The Cit­i­zens Against Noise Pol­lu­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CANPTT) has ac­knowl­edged the progress made with the Fire­works Reg­u­la­tion Bill now be­fore Par­lia­ment but says the leg­is­la­tion re­mains in­com­plete and un­able to pro­tect cit­i­zens in its cur­rent form.

In a state­ment CANPTT not­ed that the Bill marks the first time ex­plo­sive py­rotech­nics are be­ing ad­dressed as an is­sue of pub­lic health and na­tion­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty. The group recog­nised med­ical pro­fes­sion­als cit­i­zens and or­gan­i­sa­tions that have raised the mat­ter over sev­er­al years. How­ev­er CANPTT said the draft fails to de­fine res­i­den­tial com­mu­ni­ties as pro­tect­ed ar­eas even though most harm oc­curs in homes.

Ac­cord­ing to CANPTT fire­works ex­plode above hous­es and com­mu­ni­ties dis­turb­ing in­fants per­sons with car­diac con­di­tions chil­dren on the neu­ro­di­ver­gent spec­trum and trau­ma sur­vivors. The group ref­er­enced clin­i­cal ob­ser­va­tions link­ing fire­works to in­fant car­diac dis­tress and res­pi­ra­to­ry in­sta­bil­i­ty.