A po­lice con­sta­ble es­caped with his life dur­ing a shoot­ing last night in St Ann's af­ter a bul­let from ban­dits struck his walkie-talkie.

As the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice tries to grap­ple with crime and rob­beries, com­mu­ni­ca­tions provider Flow has part­nered with All­pro Se­cu­ri­ty to pro­vide res­i­den­tial se­cu­ri­ty to its cus­tomers.

So­ca artiste Machel Mon­tano has of­fi­cial­ly se­cured his 11th Road March ti­tle, ty­ing with the leg­endary Ald­wyn “Lord Kitch­en­er” Roberts and ce­ment­ing his place as the most dec­o­rat­ed Car­ni­val com­pe­ti­tion win­ner in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s his­to­ry.

For the third con­sec­u­tive time and fourth over­all, The Lost Tribe has been crowned Se­nior Band of the Year in the large band cat­e­go­ry, wow­ing judges with their por­tray­al Lost In Time. The band al­so se­cured the large Band of the Year ti­tle.

De­spite record­ing sev­en homi­cides over the four days of Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions be­tween March 1-4, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Ju­nior Ben­jamin has de­clared Car­ni­val 2025 a “gen­er­al­ly safe” one.

Gold Com­man­der for Car­ni­val 2025, As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP), Crime, Richard Smith, yes­ter­day added his voice to of­fi­cials say­ing this year’s cel­e­bra­tions had been one of the safest ever.

Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion chair­man Win­ston “Gyp­sy” Pe­ters says the fa­tal shoot­ing in St James and the stab­bing death of a teen box­er in San­gre Grande on Tues­day, as well as the in­ci­dent where a man was crushed by a mu­sic truck in San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day, did not mar Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions.

The fo­cus shift­ed from the road to the river­bank for Ash Wednes­day yes­ter­day, when friends and fam­i­lies gath­ered at Cau­ra Riv­er in Tu­na­puna. While some opt­ed to cool down be­neath the bam­boo shade or in the wa­ter, oth­ers con­tin­ued their rev­el­ry.

The rel­a­tives of mur­dered Venezue­lan bar­ber Irvin Joaquin May­o­ra, have rub­bished claims that he was killed when he tried to rob a man who was in St James on Car­ni­val Tues­day. In­stead, they said May­o­ra and the man who killed him knew each oth­er.

An ar­gu­ment over a dance with a young woman on Car­ni­val Tues­day end­ed with the mur­der of a na­tion­al youth box­er.

Rel­a­tives of mur­dered busi­ness­woman Bibi Za­mil­la Swamber are call­ing on the po­lice and those in au­thor­i­ty to step up crime-fight­ing ef­forts in the coun­try.

Li­cens­ing of­fi­cers are ex­pect­ed to to­day in­spect the mu­sic truck that crushed a rev­eller to death on Car­ni­val Mon­day in San Fer­nan­do.