That event underscored the dangers of carnival -too much liquor, too much competition, and too much energy make for a dangerous cocktail.

The chair of the National celebrations committee, Francis Fonseca told us today that they are running a tight ship when it comes to citizen security this weekend. He says that they are working hand in hand with the police to ensure that a strong police presence is maintained throughout the carnival.

Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education
"Well I wasn't aware of the fight last night but of course absolutely that's something I can tell you we spend a lot of time at the national celebrations commission talking about the security and safety of all of these events that's why we have the Belize police department and the Belize defense force represented on the commission. We have of course our traffic officers and all of these, the Belize city council everybody represented there the mayors association. Because that is critically important we want people to enjoy the celebrations I mean the celebrations is all about people it's all about them having fun celebrating Belize and loving Belize so we always hate when one or two individuals spoil it for other people because of as you rightly described it drinking and drunkenness and that sort of thing so you know we absolutely discourage that and we have made it very clear to the police department and other security officers and enforcement officers whenever we see that we must resolve it immediately to make sure that families and children can enjoy the September celebrations peacefully so it's a serious issue and we are addressing it as much as we can."