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.

Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion Vic­ar Gen­er­al, Fa­ther Mar­tin Sir­ju, says events held on Ash Wednes­day should not be la­belled as “cooldowns.”

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don yes­ter­day warned against putting God on a to-do list. In­stead, make God the num­ber one pri­or­i­ty he said in his Ash Wednes­day ser­mon mark­ing the start of Lent at Our La­dy of Per­pet­u­al Help in San Fer­nan­do.

There is no miss­ing mon­ey! This was point­ed out yes­ter­day by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert, who ac­cused Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of mak­ing up sto­ries in the im­passe be­tween Fi­nance Min­istry of­fi­cials and the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al in the 2023 pub­lic ac­counts mat­ter.

Ac­tivist Jow­elle De Souza re­signed from the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) yes­ter­day, af­ter tak­ing is­sue with the par­ty’s lead­er­ship and tra­jec­to­ry. She said the fi­nal straw was an al­leged re­mark by deputy leader Jear­lean John that the po­lit­i­cal leader had “tak­en a lot of heat” from re­li­gious groups for De Souza.

Close to 30 Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, Sea Lots res­i­dents marched to the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion (CPS), Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day to beg the po­lice to in­ter­vene in what they claimed is an on­go­ing in­ter­nal war in the com­mu­ni­ty.