FireOne supports new fireworks regulations

Fire­One Fire­works has wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s move to in­tro­duce the Sum­ma­ry Of­fences (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025, say­ing the pro­posed reg­u­la­tions align with its long-stand­ing fo­cus on pub­lic safe­ty and re­spon­si­ble cel­e­bra­tions.

In a re­lease is­sued this morn­ing, the com­pa­ny said it sup­ports ef­forts to pro­tect vul­ner­a­ble groups and bring greater struc­ture to the sec­tor. Fire­One said safe­ty has shaped its iden­ti­ty for decades, with its sys­tems built on a pro­fes­sion­al and safe­ty-dri­ven mod­el that ex­ceeds in­dus­try norms.

Fire­One said fire­works use in Trinidad and To­ba­go has changed sig­nif­i­cant­ly over the past 30 years, when cul­tur­al prac­tices such as bam­boo burst­ing, car­bide ex­plo­sions, and home­made py­rotech­nics caused se­ri­ous in­juries and wide­spread noise.

The com­pa­ny said per­sis­tent pub­lic ed­u­ca­tion, along with cer­ti­fied con­sumer fire­works, helped steer the coun­try to­ward safer and more con­trolled al­ter­na­tives.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, all Fire­One prod­ucts are in­de­pen­dent­ly in­spect­ed and cer­ti­fied by the Amer­i­can Fire­works Stan­dards Lab­o­ra­to­ry, an in­ter­na­tion­al body that tests fire­works to glob­al stan­dards.

The com­pa­ny said it al­so vol­un­tar­i­ly fol­lows in­ter­na­tion­al best prac­tices, in­clud­ing safe­ty guide­lines from the Na­tion­al Fire Pro­tec­tion As­so­ci­a­tion.

Fire­One said na­tion­al be­hav­iour has shift­ed as a re­sult of ed­u­ca­tion and re­spon­si­ble dis­tri­b­u­tion. It said near­ly three months of in­dis­crim­i­nate noise have been re­duced to a few hours of con­trolled cel­e­bra­tion each year.

The com­pa­ny added that its an­nu­al Box­ing Day Sale en­sures the pub­lic can ac­cess le­gal, cer­ti­fied prod­ucts in­stead of il­le­gal al­ter­na­tives.

The com­pa­ny said its watch­words—Dis­ci­pline, Pro­duc­tion, and Tol­er­ance—guide its op­er­a­tions and pub­lic out­reach. It al­so wel­comed the for­mal­i­sa­tion of des­ig­nat­ed cel­e­bra­tion pe­ri­ods, in­clud­ing the one-hour win­dows on pub­lic hol­i­days and at year-end, say­ing these re­in­force or­der and pre­dictabil­i­ty.

Fire­One said it re­mains com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing the Gov­ern­ment, pol­i­cy­mak­ers, en­force­ment agen­cies, com­mu­ni­ty groups, and the wider pub­lic as the coun­try en­ters what it called a new era of struc­tured and re­spon­si­ble fire­works use.