Mem­bers of the Sen­ate yes­ter­day ob­served a minute’s si­lence to mark the pass­ing of ca­lyp­so gi­ant Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co, with sen­a­tors de­scrib­ing him as a defin­ing voice in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cul­tur­al his­to­ry.

Sen­a­tors yes­ter­day re­flect­ed on the last­ing im­pact of Dr Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co, re­mem­ber­ing the ca­lyp­son­ian as an artist who used mu­sic not on­ly to en­ter­tain, but to com­ment on pol­i­tics and so­ci­ety.

To vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian Win­ston “Gyp­sy” Pe­ters, the Mighty Spar­row was one of the great­est ca­lyp­so­ni­ans to ever live, a cul­tur­al gi­ant whose lega­cy de­serves the same na­tion­al recog­ni­tion Ja­maica gave Bob Mar­ley.

Grena­da has joined Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider Caribbean in mourn­ing the death of leg­endary ca­lyp­son­ian Slinger Fran­cis­co, the Mighty Spar­row, with Prime Min­is­ter Dick­on Mitchell and the is­land’s Min­is­ter for Tourism, Cre­ative Econ­o­my and Cul­ture Adri­an Thomas pay­ing trib­ute to one of the re­gion’s most cel­e­brat­ed cul­tur­al icons.

The Unit­ed States Em­bassy in Trinidad and To­ba­go says T&T has tak­en a ma­jor step in strength­en­ing re­gion­al co­op­er­a­tion against nar­co-ter­ror­ism by join­ing the Unit­ed States in des­ig­nat­ing 25 crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tions as for­eign ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tions.

The ear­ly morn­ing in­ter­cep­tion of a boat led to the seizure of a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na and the ar­rest of three Venezue­lans, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of De­fence yes­ter­day.

A To­ba­go school­boy is now at the cen­tre of a homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tion, af­ter an au­top­sy on 70-year-old Leon Scot­land con­firmed he was killed.

A burst of tor­ren­tial rain was all it took to bring parts of Port-of-Spain and west­ern Trinidad to a crawl yes­ter­day, as flood­wa­ters swal­lowed streets and backed up traf­fic.

A mas­sive pot­hole along Sad­dle Road, Boissiere Vil­lage, Mar­aval, has re-emerged just one week af­ter re­pair works were car­ried out, leav­ing mo­torists frus­trat­ed and con­tribut­ing to traf­fic grid­lock in the area.

For­mer House Speak­er Bridgid An­nisette-George has re­ject­ed at­tempts to use her cast­ing votes in Par­lia­ment in 2017 as prece­dent for Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark’s de­cid­ing vote on the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, ar­gu­ing that none of her votes de­ter­mined the fate of sub­stan­tive leg­is­la­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) in­ter­cept­ed a lo­cal ves­sel dur­ing an ear­ly-morn­ing mar­itime op­er­a­tion to­day, with three Venezue­lan na­tion­als on­board and 11 cro­cus bags con­tain­ing pack­ets of com­pressed, plant-like ma­te­r­i­al dis­cov­ered dur­ing a search.

Grena­da has joined Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider Caribbean in mourn­ing the death of leg­endary ca­lyp­son­ian Slinger Fran­cis­co, the Mighty Spar­row, with the is­land’s Min­is­ter for Tourism, Cre­ative Econ­o­my and Cul­ture de­scrib­ing him as one of the re­gion’s most cel­e­brat­ed cul­tur­al icons.