The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has is­sued a Haz­ardous Seas Alert for North­ern ex­posed coast­lines, for over the next few days.

At a time when climb­ing food prices feel like a week­ly rit­u­al and in a Car­ni­val land­scape dom­i­nat­ed by large, high-bud­get mas­quer­ade bands, one mi­ni Car­ni­val band in Bel­mont, bear­ing the name of one of T&T’s most trea­sured band­lead­ers, is chal­leng­ing the norm with a sim­ple but trans­for­ma­tive idea with its Pay What You Can “bonus” of­fer­ing.

Sport in­her­ent­ly in­volves a "risk of in­jury, and where there is neg­li­gence there is scope in the sport­ing are­na for those harmed to take le­gal ac­tion" (Schot, 2005). Neg­li­gence is de­fined as the ab­sence of rea­son­able care where it should have been ex­er­cised. Un­der Eng­lish Law, for a claim to suc­ceed, four con­di­tions must be met (Cad­dell, 2005):

Af­ter dom­i­nat­ing Spice­mas in 2025, sev­er­al Grena­di­an so­ca hits are tak­ing over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions. So it’s no sur­prise the artistes flew over to give au­di­ences a di­rect taste of their coun­try’s Jab en­er­gy.

With the life of its in­dus­try-plus on the line, the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion has got­ten to the bot­tom line of in­tol­er­ance with the seabridge, and it not meet­ing the needs of es­pe­cial­ly peo­ple liv­ing in To­ba­go and those want­i­ng to trav­el be­tween the two parts of the na­tion.