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  • 2 months ago
Defense Minister Wayne Sturge is disputing any suggestion or media report that this year's independence day parade is to start at memorial Park.
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00:00The parade route is that which was set out by the Chief of Defence Staff Commodore Polo yesterday and it
00:08is this. The parade is being held opposite President South on the northern side of the Queen's Park Savannah.
00:15When the parade exits it would go along Queen's Park East till right until it meets Napa and then that's
00:26the top of Frederick Street. It would then proceed in a southerly direction along Frederick Street then across at Park
00:34Street in a westerly direction until it meets Green Corner.
00:39From Green Corner down Tragrid Road until Roxy's Roundabout and thereafter down Western Main Road St. James and then up
00:49Long Circular Road.
00:51So any news that the parade is going to start in the vicinity of Memorial Park and proceed up Charlotte
00:59Street or down Chantry Lane or across Keith Street is absolute rubbish.
01:09Because there are only two hundreds of members of the parade has been on the lake that says that souvenirs
01:10are the last two others that went surviving previously, the walk from another street.
01:10They're another two hundred people once in and half of an eight- made