Fireone Fireworks robbed & now fireworks illegal?

[Dragular]

Just watching the news tonight and its so absurd that the police now cracking down on fireworks because a certain business group was robbed. Why the police did not act on fireworks being illegal every year gone by???

use of Fireworks are illegal according to the law!


http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20161227 ... ks-sellers


CITIZENS have been asked to resist buying suspiciously cheap fireworks from unauthorised vendors over the next few days, following robberies at four outlets of FireOne Fireworks, the largest distributor in the country.
At least three of the robberies are thought to be the work of the same gang of thieves, who used methods such as slitting open the tents from which the fireworks were being sold.
The first robbery took place at Shoppes of Arima on Tumpuna Road on Thursday night.
Then, on Friday morning, armed men stormed a fireworks stall just after 3 a.m. in the parking lot of KFC and Pizza Hut at Valsayn.
The thieves appeared unconcerned about the traffic or nearby security cameras.
Vendors at that stall told TV6 yesterday that six armed men in two cars held up their security guard.
“They slit the tent. They came in. They took a whole set of stuff from the shelving and what not...rockets, candles, they thrash the whole table. They take baskets, everything,” one vendor said.
They were almost robbed again yesterday morning but were saved by police on patrol.
“It’s a good thing that the police were on patrol. They held the guys and they have them in the station,” a vendor said.
While police look for a connection in the first two robberies, a third robbery at a fireworks stall near The Falls at Westmall has fit the pattern of the first two.
There, the vendors told a similar tale to that of their counterparts in Valsayn.
As happened in Valsayn, six robbers, three armed with guns, held up their stall on Boxing Day.
On the occasion, the robbers arrived in three cars.
The thieves again sliced the tent open, forced the security guards to lie on the ground and stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.
The vendors said this was their first year selling fireworks but they will not be thwarted by dejection, TV6 reported.
Losses still being tallied
FireOne Fireworks managing director Andre Abraham said yesterday he was aware of the robberies and the company is still tallying its losses.
He said the chain of robberies was a sign of the times, adding that the company had never dealt with crime at this level.
Abraham told TV6 the company has also already doubled its security measures, at tremendous added cost.

[Morpheus]

Steups.......

[pugboy]

fb social justice warriors have been asking ppl to call police stations and
quote the actual laws which prohibit use of fireworks when they report use in their residential neighbourhoods

understand the police have been complaining of being overwhelmed with the reports lol

the fireworks complainers should simply go by the politicians and firework company owners and let loose them in the middle of the night....

[MaxPower]

Time to crack down on these crackers...

Enforce the law...start charging, fining and locking up ppl.

Violent approach if necessary, lets make some examples for the new year.

[DTAC]

As far as I know fireworks have always been illegal. But it's Trinidad, go big enough and the laws are conveniently forgotten. Read into that what you will.

[hustla_ambition101]

Dont see the thrill of random uncordinated fireworks displays....coupled with the fact that the loud explosions contributed to my fathers heart attacks before he eventually died a few years ago. Get rid of all of it....

[pugboy]

Unfortunately the cops may beat up this week with the lil public pressure
But after next week it will be back to normal.

The two major fireworks importers are firmly aligned as sponsors of either political party
In fact scratch bombs are actually a deflection benefit to them as every time the fireworks companies are asked about the noise nuisance they refer to scratch bombs and not their own products which generate as much noise.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Face reality ppl the govt will never ban fireworks...never...you want them Syrian flip out or wah...ttps made themselves look dumb today....trying to "crack down" on petty men in the capital...ohh d fireworks have gun powder so lock up ppl.

[eurotuner]

As much as i'm against scratch bombs etc etc...police are not gonna do one sheite!
They are ALREADY over their heads with crime etc.

[gastly369]

As much as i'm against scratch bombs etc etc...police are not gonna do one sheite!
They are ALREADY over their heads with crime etc.

Blown park lightbulb ticket hadda share dan (once ticket filled out properly)

Wah else dey could do

[fouljuice]

They were almost robbed again yesterday morning but were saved by police on patrol.
“It’s a good thing that the police were on patrol. They held the guys and they have them in the station,” a vendor said.

Are the thieves:
1) people who fed up with fireworks
2) competitors
3) good boys in general?

If is good boys who they really have in the station, why not skin out dey kakahole and full the fireworks inside and light them, and set a precedent for the new year?
We all know they will be back out and robbing by or before the 31st.

[pete]

You need a license to resell the fireworks but not personal use. It's just like alcohol, if you want to make a little hustle carnival time and buy a few cases of beers and sell for $10 isn't that illegal too and you can get charged if you do it without a license?

[cherrypopper]

You need a license to resell the fireworks but not personal use. It's just like alcohol, if you want to make a little hustle carnival time and buy a few cases of beers and sell for $10 isn't that illegal too and you can get charged if you do it without a license?

Yes you need an alcohol license to resell ..but.. it's pretty expensive and I am sure lots of people sell carnival time without a permit. ..

[adnj]

Fireworks are not illegal but the use is regulated to certain locations without a permit.

As far as I know fireworks have always been illegal.

You need a license to resell the fireworks but not personal use.

The Summary Offences Act 1921, as amended:

99. (1) Except as prescribed by **Regulations under this Act, any person who throws, casts, sets fire to, or lets off any fireworks within any town is liable to a fine of one thousand dollars ($1000).

(2) In this section and in sections 100 and 101, “town” includes the City of Port-of-Spain, the City of San Fernando, and the Borough of Arima, and every part of the area within two miles of the boundaries of such City or of either of such Boroughs, and also any place or area declared by the Minister, by Order, to be a town or to be deemed to be included within a town for the purposes of the said sections.

100. Any person who throws, casts, sets fire to, or lets off any fireworks into, in, or upon any street not being in any town, or into, in, or upon any place being within sixty feet of the centre of any such street, is liable to a fine of four hundred dollars ($400).


This means that the use of fireworks without a permit can legally only occur in the most rural of areas.

[toyolink]

The use of fireworks by all has just gotten to a point that the attraction to visual displays has been replaced by frequent awful and horrific injuries.
The situation is truly out-of-hand and this has become one of those things where....'who don't hear will feel'.
.........A whole seta money gone in seconds, just aint making sense nowadays, but then again young people bathing in Moet is the same kinda thing.

[desifemlove]

yuh need a licence to sell them.

but then shops of arima has such bad security? haha. with the traffic they does get, and the new wing they're opening (and have opened lately) they should have enough rents to buy a decent CCTV/monitoring system.

Besides, i won't be surprised if this was an inside job. Firms often are involved in crooked ting.

[desifemlove]

but then it shows how screwed the system is. If there are licenes, why aren't the police literally going in and shutting these places down? and how does a customer know if they are licensed or not? Have a system like in bars, where one can see the proprietor's name, or something like a VAT licence posted publicly.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Allyuh missing the point...the problem is the fireworks not the license..ban fireworks from being sold by everyone then we can same something good was done

[16 cycles]

Ent uncle Khalid was in court for selling fireworks a few years ago...License an all?

[bluesclues]

Allyuh missing the point...the problem is the fireworks not the license..ban fireworks from being sold by everyone then we can same something good was done

Wasted forex going up in a puff of smoke.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Allyuh missing the point...the problem is the fireworks not the license..ban fireworks from being sold by everyone then we can same something good was done

Wasted forex going up in a puff of smoke.

Syrians doh suffer from foreign exchange shortage

[Dizzy28]

Allyuh missing the point...the problem is the fireworks not the license..ban fireworks from being sold by everyone then we can same something good was done

Wasted forex going up in a puff of smoke.

Some would argue Scotch and other liquors are wasted forex going down in a piss of urine!!!

[bluesclues]

Allyuh missing the point...the problem is the fireworks not the license..ban fireworks from being sold by everyone then we can same something good was done

Wasted forex going up in a puff of smoke.

Some would argue Scotch and other liquors are wasted forex going down in a piss of urine!!!

The production of urine requires a processing stage after consumption. The end product can also be exported for forex revenues. Lol

[redmanjp]

You need a license to resell the fireworks but not personal use. It's just like alcohol, if you want to make a little hustle carnival time and buy a few cases of beers and sell for $10 isn't that illegal too and you can get charged if you do it without a license?

a cousin of mine was saying u can sell a chit and use that chit to get alcohol to bypass the requirement for an alcohol licence

[K74T]

Cousin talking chit