Fear and amaze­ment at yes­ter­day’s show of force by na­ture in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines - but Tri­nis there are safe.

Af­ter spend­ing three years on re­mand, a po­lice of­fi­cer, who was charged with mur­der­ing a con­struc­tion work­er while on du­ty in 2016, has walked free.

Four po­lice of­fi­cers in­volved in the now-con­tro­ver­sial traf­fic stop and search of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice’s daugh­ter and son-in-law have been trans­ferred out of the Cou­va CID.

Two po­lice of­fi­cers ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore act­ing Se­nior Mag­is­trate Bramb­hanan Dubay at the Ari­ma First Mag­is­trates’ Court yes­ter­day, charged with three counts of mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

The con­tro­ver­sial An­ti-Gang bill was passed in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day in the ab­sence of the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes said she and the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go are stand­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

All Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als re­sid­ing in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines who are all re­sid­ing near the cap­i­tal to the south of the is­land are ac­count­ed for and safe.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley was among the many world lead­ers yes­ter­day pay­ing trib­ute to Prince Philip, the Duke of Ed­in­burgh and hus­band of Queen Eliz­a­beth II who died yes­ter­day morn­ing.

All air­ports are shut down in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines and the ash­fall from the erupt­ing La Soufriere vol­cano is so thick, that small­er boats try­ing to evac­u­ate res­i­dents are be­ing forced to turn back.

The Op­po­si­tion boy­cotted yes­ter­day’s House sit­ting, claim­ing that the Par­lia­ment had not been san­i­tized since Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley sat in the space on March 26, just days be­fore he was di­ag­nosed as COVID-19 pos­i­tive.

Lo­cal NGOs, church­es, and some su­per­mar­kets have joined forces to send re­lief sup­plies to the peo­ple of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines (SVG) as an ex­plo­sive erup­tion at the La Soufriere vol­cano oc­curred at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8.42 am yes­ter­day.

In the wake of the erup­tion of the La Soufriere vol­cano which oc­curred yes­ter­day morn­ing in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines (SVG), one pas­tor is con­cerned the is­land might face a dou­ble cri­sis as it was still bat­tling the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.