safety steps

CABINET NOTES: The Minister of Creative Industries presented to Cabinet a proposal to change the parade route on Carnival Tuesday afternoon.  

It was presented to the Cabinet that with increasing numbers of participants taking part in the Carnival parades, and given the need to provide a safe environment for spectators and participants, a change in the Carnival Tuesday parade route was necessary.  

The proposed route would be identical to that of T-shirt Mas which starts on Old Parham Road, right onto Simon Bolivar Boulevard, west onto Sir Sydney Walling Highway, south onto Parliament Drive, west onto Queen Elizabeth Highway, north onto Independence Drive, west onto Redcliffe Street, north onto Thames Street, east onto High Street, north onto Independence Drive, enter Carnival City at the Cenotaph entrance.  

The Cabinet supported the proposal to the change in parade route.