‘Dry run’ a success, says Assistant CoP
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YESTERDAY’S ’dry run’ of ferrying ’foreign dignitaries’ from the Hyatt Regency hotel on Wrightson Road, Port of Spain, to the National Academy for the Performing Arts went well, according to Gold Commander for security arrangements for the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Stephen Williams. The ’dry run’ lasted two hours-between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. The exercise gauged the length of time it would take to transport the Heads of State and other delegates from the Hyatt Regency hotel to the National Academy for the Performing Arts, on Frederick Street. The heads will travel from Wrightson Road onto Colville Street then to Cipriani Boulevard and then onto Queen’s Park West to the National Performing Arts Centre. Williams said he anticipates things will run smoothly between November 27 and 29, when the Commonwealth Heads arrive. ’We didn’t block off any roads,’ he said, ’but what we did do was some traffic management and control. Now we are satisfied from a security standpoint that we have done all the things that we needed to do,’ he said. (Trinidad Express) |