T&T local committee clarifies ticket delivery delay

The Trinidad and Tobago Local Organising Committee (T&T LOC) has clarified that the delay in the delivery of tickets to T&T locals occurred because the ICC Cricket World Cup Committee 2007 (ICC CWC ) in Jamaica handled the purchase of tickets over the internet.

"The local ticketing offices in Trinidad and Tobago dealt specifically with person to person sale encounters," Mark Santana, the ticketing supervisor of the local committee told the Caribbean Media Corporation. "What we found with this issue is that over 300 tickets for Trinidad and Tobago fans were re-routed throughout the region."

Santana explained that the delay occurred as the local committee had to track down the tickets and then arrange for delivery from other countries. He added that the committee would compensate fans for the delay by providing them with tickets to alternative matches or assisting those fans who were to attend matches in other islands to access their tickets through the LOC of that country.

As deemed by the ICC CWC all ticket centres in T&T and other regions would be open from Monday to Saturday including all match days, Santana said.

On the Hilton hotel gas leak, where members of the Pakistan and South Africa squads were evacuated after it was suspected that a fire had broken out in the hotel, Santana said investigations were continuing and that the players were safe and comfortable in the hotel.

Players had been evacuated when smoke was detected on the sixth floor of the Hilton hotel in Port-of-Spain. But it was later reported that there had been a gas leak in the hotel and not a fire.