Just over a year af­ter cy­clist and pho­tog­ra­ph­er, An­tho­ny Har­ris, was killed in a hit-and-run around the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, a man has been charged with caus­ing Har­ris’ death by dan­ger­ous dri­ving.

Naeem Bis­nath, a mo­torist, was re­leased on $300,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with caus­ing death by dan­ger­ous dri­ving.

Har­ris was struck while cy­cling on Ju­ly 9, 2022, around the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, near the flash­ing traf­fic lights at Pres­i­dent’s House. He lat­er died.

Har­ris’ daugh­ter, Charisse Har­ris, told Guardian Me­dia on Thurs­day the ar­rest “is the be­gin­ning of com­ing to some sort of clo­sure.”

She said, “Fi­nal­ly! It took al­most a whole year. I guess that’s how al­most all of our en­tire fam­i­ly feels at this point. Over the last year, we haven’t felt any bet­ter. It still feels as though it hap­pened yes­ter­day. Our dad was a big part of the fam­i­ly and he’s very im­por­tant to all of us so this year didn’t re­open a wound cause the wound nev­er healed and I don’t think it ever will.”

The TTPS says com­pre­hen­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tions were con­duct­ed in­to the mat­ter and ad­vice was re­ceived from the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pros­e­cu­tions.

The sus­pect was ar­rest­ed and charged in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent on Ju­ly 11, this year.

Along with Ar­rive Alive, Charisse and her fam­i­ly have raised aware­ness over the last year to make dri­vers more aware of cy­clists.

How­ev­er, she feels a lot still needs to be done.

She said, “I think we are still at the same place where we were last year. The signs around the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah need to be more vis­i­ble. I think chang­ing them from white to yel­low will be great as well as the times the cy­clists are al­lowed to use the right lane. I al­so think that needs to be on the Sa­van­nah as well, not just off of the side street en­ter­ing in­to the Sa­van­nah. I think it needs to be on Sa­van­nah be­cause not every­body pays at­ten­tion to signs.”