Notting Hill Carnival risk being cancelled in 2009
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The Kensington and Chelsea council, host of the parade which has been taking place every year since 1965 sited a failure in organisation and the late recuriting and training of stewards as the reason for this years Carnival riot outbreak, which resulted in 488 people arrested and 40 police officers injured in scenes which some witnesses describes as a war zone.
Among the demands the second largest street festival in the world must meet to be given the all clear are, it must be run by a competent, experienced organisation, with the proven authority to direct participants and it must make sure carnival is fully risk assessed and that all bands and sound systems have adequate insurance.
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Caribbean Cultural Researcher, Dr. Suzanne Burke, Publishes Her First Book, ‘Policing The Transnational’
On August 20, 2010, Caribbean cultural researcher, lecturer and programme coordinator for the University of the West Indies’ (UWI’s) Arts and Cultural Enterprise Management Programme (ACEM), Dr. Suzanne Burke, launched her book, Policing the Transnational: Cultural Policy Development in the Anglophone Caribbean (1962 – 2008), at a private function held at the Hotel Normandie’s Village Hall, Trinidad and Tobago. The book, is the culmination of over fifteen years of thought,...
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