Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) Chair­man Pe­ter Kan­hai ac­knowl­edged the loud pub­lic back­lash he faced on open­ing night of the John Cu­pid Car­ni­val Vil­lage, say­ing the Com­mis­sion will lis­ten to the con­cerns raised about mov­ing the venue to the north­west­ern side of the Grand Stand at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

A copy­right dis­pute has emerged in the fi­nal days of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly cam­paign, with at­tor­neys for a US-based mu­sic pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny warn­ing of im­mi­nent court ac­tion against the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

Pro­test­ers against im­mi­gra­tion en­force­ment took to the streets in cities and towns across the coun­try on Sat­ur­day af­ter one fed­er­al of­fi­cer fa­tal­ly shot a woman in Min­neapo­lis and an­oth­er shot and wound­ed two peo­ple in Port­land, Ore­gon.

A prison of­fi­cer has been ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Va­len­cia that led to the dis­cov­ery of am­mu­ni­tion and more than one kilo­gram of cannabis.