The Barbados Police Service is advising the public of traffic management arrangements which will be put in place for the Independence Ceremonial Parade and March.
The Parade will be held at Kensington Oval, on November 30, and will start at 8:00 a.m.
The parade will travel along the following roads:
Fontabelle Road
Cheapside Road
Chapel Street,
Prince Alfred Street
Broad Street
Trafalgar Street
Bridge Street
Charles Duncan O’Neal Bridge
Probyn Street
Bay Street
Lower Fairchild Street
Independence Square in Bridgetown
The following roads will be one-way streets with traffic flowing in the Mighty Grynner Highway direction:
Fontabelle Road from its junction with Lakes Folly
Redman Drive to its junction with President Kennedy Drive
Holborn Circle
There will be partial road closures starting at 6 a.m. for the following roads:
President Kennedy Drive, from its junction with Westbury Road to its junction with Holborn Circle shall be closed to all traffic except for public service vehicles.
In addition, parking will not be permitted in the following areas:
Fontabelle Road
Westbury Road
President Kennedy Drive
Cheapside Road
Redman Drive
Prescod Boulevard
The road leading to Hanschell Inniss Limited
Pickwick Gap
University Row
Mighty Grynner Highway
Kensington New Road
Please note the emergency route starts at President Kennedy Drive and will proceed along Westbury Road, Passage Road, Country Road, Roebuck Street, Halls Road, and Martindale’s Road.
No motorists will be allowed to leave their vehicle stationary along the emergency route or alternate emergency route except to pick up or set down passengers.
All drivers and riders of vehicles, pedestrians and riders or leaders of animals using any of the roads shall exercise caution.
They shall comply with any order given by a member of the Barbados Police Service in uniform.
Any person who contravenes these rules or fails to comply with any order given by a member of the Barbados Police Service in uniform is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500, imprisonment for 3 months or to both.
These rules do not apply to vehicles used by the Barbados Police Service, the Barbados Defence Force, the Barbados Fire Service or any emergency vehicle.