Click to view full size

An­na-Lisa Paul

Hours af­ter act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin re­port­ed this year’s Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions were in­ci­dent free, four peo­ple were shot in St James yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, one of them fa­tal­ly, forc­ing an ear­ly shut­down of the cel­e­bra­tions there.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, gun­shots were heard com­ing from an area near Vi­dale Street and West­ern Main Road, out­side the St James Mar­ket, around 4.30 pm.