Yup Life director to critics: Let us redeem ourselves

As events man­age­ment and lifestyle com­pa­ny Yup Life con­tin­ues to face crit­i­cism from dis­sat­is­fied Fes­ti­val of Colour (FOC) fete pa­trons on so­cial me­dia, the com­pa­ny’s di­rec­tor Shadeed Ab­dul­lah is urg­ing dis­ap­point­ed at­ten­dees to give them a chance to re­deem them­selves fol­low­ing the events of Mon­day.

The J’Ou­vert-style break­fast par­ty, which took place at Pier Two, Ch­aguara­mas, be­gan at 3 am and was sched­uled to end at 9 am. How­ev­er, po­lice and fire of­fi­cials on du­ty at the venue end­ed the event around 7 am, due to a large in­flux of peo­ple try­ing to en­ter the venue.

Re­ports es­ti­mat­ed that close to 6,500 peo­ple tried to gain en­try to the fete’s grounds, which were on­ly ap­proved for a ca­pac­i­ty of 4000 pa­trons.