Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co may have passed, but the ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty is in­sist­ing that the art form he helped shape, pop­u­larise and car­ry around the world will live on.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val Mu­se­um closed its Pen­ny Bank venue to the pub­lic yes­ter­day, cit­ing dif­fi­cul­ties se­cur­ing Gov­ern­ment and cor­po­rate sup­port.

A Mor­vant pen­sion­er was stabbed mul­ti­ple times by a male rel­a­tive dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion on Wednes­day and lat­er died at hos­pi­tal.

A thun­der­storm swept across parts of north­west­ern Trinidad yes­ter­day, leav­ing a trail of dam­age af­ter it downed trees, dam­aged prop­er­ty and dis­rupt­ed elec­tric­i­ty sup­plies to hun­dreds of cus­tomers.

Rel­a­tives of Nicoya Bernard-Paul, who was in­jured in a chop­ping in­ci­dent in Sig­nal Hill, are breath­ing a sigh of re­lief af­ter her dis­abled son was dis­charged from Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. The 18-year-old near­ly died in a fire on Wednes­day.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials in the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion (NCD) have con­firmed in­creas­es in mur­ders, sex­u­al of­fences, home in­va­sions and fraud since the start of the year. They al­so urged res­i­dents to take steps to pro­tect them­selves and their prop­er­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val Mu­se­um will close its Pen­ny Bank venue to the pub­lic from to­day, cit­ing dif­fi­cul­ties se­cur­ing Gov­ern­ment and cor­po­rate sup­port.

UP­DATE: Sad­dle Road, San­ta Cruz, has been cleared and is now pass­able fol­low­ing the re­moval of a fall­en tree that blocked the road­way ear­li­er to­day.

Mo­torists and com­muters are be­ing ad­vised to avoid Pax Vale, San­ta Cruz, fol­low­ing a com­plete road block­age caused by a fall­en tree that has come in­to con­tact with Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) pow­er lines.

T&TEC crews are work­ing to re­store elec­tric­i­ty to cus­tomers in parts of San­ta Cruz af­ter a large tree was up­root­ed dur­ing heavy rain­fall on Thurs­day, dam­ag­ing two util­i­ty poles.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 16-year-old Mala­ki Roberts, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Tues­day.

The Mighty Spar­row may have passed, but the ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty is in­sist­ing that the art form he helped shape, pop­u­larise and car­ry around the world will live on.