So­ca artiste Fay Ann Lyons-Al­varez, wife of Bun­ji Gar­lin, has de­clared that the Viking and Viqueen duo will no longer par­tic­i­pate in lo­cal Car­ni­val-re­lat­ed com­pe­ti­tions.

Hours af­ter act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin re­port­ed this year’s Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions were in­ci­dent free, four peo­ple were shot in St James yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, one of them fa­tal­ly, forc­ing an ear­ly shut­down of the cel­e­bra­tions there.

Per­form­ing the an­nu­al Car­ni­val walk­a­bout in the cap­i­tal city for the last time as Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty yes­ter­day, Fitzger­ald Hinds said the last rodeo had left him hap­py and proud.

The man who mur­dered Lennox Williams had been a trust­ed fam­i­ly friend—so much so that he some­times slept over and even had a key to the premis­es.

Pen­sion­er Rose Parks had loved 79-year-old Sel­wyn Lit­tle for many years, ever since she saw him on tele­vi­sion play­ing Fan­cy Sailor mas dur­ing Car­ni­val.

The So­cadrome vi­brat­ed with mu­sic and hun­dreds of jump­ing feet yes­ter­day, as mas­quer­aders in an ec­sta­t­ic trance rev­elled in free­dom.

South Quay, Port-of-Spain erupt­ed with colour, rhythm and Car­ni­val en­er­gy yes­ter­day, as mas­quer­aders pa­rad­ed be­fore judges and spec­ta­tors in a daz­zling dis­play of cre­ativ­i­ty and spir­it for Car­ni­val Tues­day.

The spe­cial unit com­pris­ing of­fi­cers from the Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion and the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) was kept busy en­forc­ing ve­hi­cle reg­u­la­tions over the Car­ni­val week­end.

Po­lice of­fi­cers re­cov­ered nine knives and one icepick dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in San Fer­nan­do for the J’ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions on Car­ni­val Mon­day,.

South mas­quer­aders ar­rived late as usu­al in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day, but the wait was worth it as they daz­zled in all their splen­dour, show­cas­ing not on­ly cre­ativ­i­ty but ex­cep­tion­al use of re­cy­cled ma­te­ri­als in their de­signs.

Af­ter mas­quer­aders’ hec­tic two-day “Pardy,” the po­lit­i­cal par­ties re­sume ac­tiv­i­ty from to­day with sub­mis­sion of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Tabaquite gen­er­al elec­tion nom­i­nees ahead.

A shoot­ing in­ci­dent around 4.30 pm near the St James Mar­ket has left one man dead and three peo­ple in­jured, as the an­nu­al Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions wind down here.