{"id":53097,"date":"2018-12-17T17:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T21:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/?p=53097"},"modified":"2019-06-12T09:19:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:19:18","slug":"police-crackdown-on-sale-and-detonation-of-explosive-devices-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/2018\/12\/police-crackdown-on-sale-and-detonation-of-explosive-devices-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Police crackdown on sale and detonation of explosive devices in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Curlan Campbell, NOW Grenada<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firecracker noise can cause temporary or permanent deafness<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>$5,000 fine for explosives without licence<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Public assistance solicited to report any violation of the law<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each year approaching the Christmas holiday, the bursting of firecrackers\/scratch bombs, sparklers, and other similar explosives have become commonplace for children and some\u00a0adults, but for many, the illegal activity has become a public nuisance and dangerous practice.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF)<a href=\"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/2018\/12\/explosives-and-firecrackers-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> issued a statement<\/a> on the matter warning against the use of pyrotechnic articles. Inspector\u00a0Desmond Richard said the RGPF is appealing to parents to intervene to ensure that their children are not involved in these activities. He highlighted the bus terminus as an example of where school-age children are engaging in such activities,\u00a0which, according\u00a0to him seems to suggest a lack of parental supervision. \u201cWe want to emphasise to parents because a lot of this has to do with young children, to pay attention to their children because as fun as it might\u00a0be, it\u00a0is also dangerous since it is an explosive device. In\u00a0fact, if\u00a0two or three are put together, the impact and\u00a0injury it\u00a0can create are unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cSome students are exploding them within the walls of the bus terminus, now you can understand\u2026 that we have to give considerations to older people that might be sick or have anxiety problems and one explosion can throw you off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Customs Department is vigilant about the unauthorised importation of explosives. \u201cIt is illegal to bring in\u00a0such an explosive\u00a0into the country without a licence. We have examples from\u00a0Trinidad, where\u00a0people were seriously injured by the explosion of these devices, so we want to emphasise that the fine is $5,000 if you are caught with explosives without a licence,\u201d said Inspector Richard. \u201cThe selling of those items is also illegal, and so we are also encouraging them to cease the\u00a0practice, but\u00a0also we as the police would be on a drive to ensure that those things are minimised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Section 9, subsection 3 (c) of the Explosives\u00a0Act, Chapter\u00a096 of Volume 6 of the 2010 Continuous Revised Laws of Grenada, makes it is a criminal offence for anyone to use, deal, sell or purchase these explosives, without the appropriate licence. The police in its release issued last week indicated that anyone found in possession of, offering for sale or discharging these devices might face criminal prosecution under the relevant legislation. Public assistance is solicited by the RGPF to report any violation of the law. An appeal was also made\u00a0for parents and guardians to educate their children\u00a0about\u00a0the consequences of detonating such explosives in public. The release stated that parents\/guardians might be subject to criminal prosecution for the acts of their children, which cause injury, loss of lives and or loss of property.<\/p>\n<p>A fine of $5,000 can be imposed upon anyone found guilty of the offence of activating, discharging or throwing of these explosive devices in any public place. It is important to note, sudden exposure to loud noise emanating from explosives such as firecrackers can cause temporary or permanent deafness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fine of $5,000 can be imposed upon anyone found guilty of the offence of activating, discharging or throwing of these explosive devices in any public place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":52978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,44],"tags":[14038,18843,2220,2219,41,18842,91,9617],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sparkler-143028_640.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}