And that stabbing wasn't the only one in Orange Walk over the weekend. We told you there were several violent incidents across the town. The crush of people from different villages, towns, and cities across the country and the flood of alcohol made it difficult for the police to maintain law and order. But according to ComPol, while they had the Carnival itself under control, the true problem was later in the night when various after parties were at their height. Here's how he explained it.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"We have to do our postmortem to see what we can do to enhance the security for the carnival. You would know that nothing happened during the carnival, the incidents occurred after the carnival so we have to do what can be done to make sure there is adequate security around Orange Walk for the after carnival events, which is going to be extremely difficult because the influx of people in Orange Walk for the carnival is extremely huge and you find people scattered all over the place and that's the reason we had said to the town council when we had our meeting prior to the carnival that we would want the after bash to be central at one location. We were hoping that only the Central Park would have had license to do anything, all the other places would have been closed, that way we would have one area that we could concentrate on but our recommendation was not accepted, other places did get licenses and so we had that issue where people had to be in different areas where the police could not have been there to ensure that there was proper security."
Courtney Menzies:
"Do you feel that the event on a whole, the day on a whole, needs to be scaled back?"
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"It's a time of celebration, people want to enjoy themselves and so I wouldn't want to be the grinch of September so I wouldn't say to scale it back but as human beings we need to be more responsible and take account of what we do. People tend to consume alcohol and forget that they have a civid duty, forget that they have to respect their peers and just do what they want and violate people, it cannot be."
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