Trinidad: Sex Island to take place on neighbouring Venezuelan island – Margarita

(Trinidad Guardian) The now high­ly pub­li­cised “Sex Is­land” fete is not ap­par­ent­ly tak­ing place this week­end in Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) as pre­vi­ous­ly ad­ver­tised and re­port­ed, but on a neigh­bour­ing Venezue­lan is­land – Is­la Mar­gari­ta.

How­ev­er, law en­force­ment agen­cies are not let­ting their guards down de­spite this lat­est in­for­ma­tion re­port­ed in the Unit­ed King­dom me­dia yes­ter­day.

A se­nior of­fi­cer of the T&T Coast Guard has as­sured Guardian Me­dia that coastal pa­trols will “still be height­ened around T&T’s coast, es­pe­cial­ly off the west­ern penin­su­la,” as the T&T au­thor­i­ties “are tak­ing no chances.”

In the midst of try­ing to get per­ti­nent in­for­ma­tion on the lo­ca­tion and the or­gan­is­ers be­hind the par­ty, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Gary Grif­fith still found hu­mour.

“I feel the me­dia try­ing to get ‘com­plis’ (re­fer­ring to com­pli­men­ta­ry tick­ets),” Grif­fith said.

“I have nev­er seen me­dia con­tact me so of­ten on any mat­ter,” he added with a hearty laugh.

Yes­ter­day in the UK, an ar­ti­cle in The Sun stat­ed that the par­ty would be tak­ing place from to­day to Sun­day on a pri­vate lux­u­ry beach re­sort in Venezuela on the Is­la Mar­gari­ta and not T&T af­ter all.

Is­la Mar­gari­ta is said to be a pop­u­lar tourist re­sort is­land off the north-east­ern coast of Venezuela – where pros­ti­tu­tion is le­gal. Ac­cord­ing to the ar­ti­cle, the prices for the “deluxe sea view” apart­ment shown in Sex Is­land’s brochures start at £145 per night.

Ear­li­er yes­ter­day, be­fore the ar­ti­cle be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing, Grif­fith, via a re­lease is­sued by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions unit, had plead­ed for cit­i­zens who had in­for­ma­tion on where the par­ty was be­ing held in T&T to con­tact him.

“Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith is ask­ing any law-abid­ing cit­i­zen, who may have in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the lo­ca­tion, date and time of the high­ly pub­li­cised par­ty in­volv­ing pros­ti­tutes and drugs; to come for­ward with in­for­ma­tion,” the re­lease stat­ed.

When asked if there was any break­through fol­low­ing the re­lease, Grif­fith, again laugh­ing, replied: “Why would I re­veal what I am do­ing to pre­vent it from tak­ing place? It is like ask­ing me what are we do­ing to re­lease a hostage whilst kid­napped.”

Per­sons with cred­i­ble in­for­ma­tion are still be­ing asked to di­rect­ly con­tact Grif­fith via texts on his di­rect num­ber 482-GARY (4279) in the par­ty, by chance, is in­deed be­ing held here as pre­vi­ous­ly ad­ver­tised.