A po­lice con­sta­ble last as­signed to Guard and Emer­gency Branch was grant­ed bail in the sum of $50,000 when he ap­peared be­fore a mag­is­trate charged with two counts of com­mon as­sault.

Through adopt­ing roles in the fields of cre­ative di­rec­tion, styling, pro­duc­tion and fash­ion mar­ket­ing, cre­ative Safia Ele­na Ali has quick­ly be­come a fa­mil­iar name on the lo­cal cre­ative scene. With the col­lab­o­ra­tion and sup­port of her long-time friend and cre­ative part­ner, Ele­na Mar­quez, “Safi­aE­le­na” was found­ed, fol­lowed by the in­tro­duc­tion of a joint, new per­spec­tive on Caribbean cre­ativ­i­ty and fash­ion. A mul­ti­fac­eted in­di­vid­ual, Safia has a strong sci­ence back­ground as she holds a Bach­e­lor of Hu­man Bi­ol­o­gy, and en­joys ex­plor­ing the in­ter­sec­tion be­tween art, the hu­man psy­che and is­sues of self-ex­pres­sion with­in con­tem­po­rary so­ci­ety. Her work has been fea­tured both in­ter­na­tion­al­ly and lo­cal­ly in pub­li­ca­tions in­clud­ing Elle Kaza­khstan, Pitch Fanzine, Caribbean Look­book and Fash­ion Fo­cus Mag­a­zine, as well as on in­flu­en­tial so­cial me­dia ac­counts such as @Black­ex­is­tence found­ed by Em­my award win­ning artist Speech. In ad­di­tion to pur­su­ing two Mas­ters de­grees, Safia is cur­rent­ly fo­cus­ing her free time on cre­ative projects cen­tred around the fe­male per­spec­tive and hu­man iden­ti­ty through Safi­aE­le­na and the New Haven Col­lec­tive. This is what she shared with WE Mag in an in­ter­view.

Po­lice and Malvern record­ed con­trast­ing wins to join de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Queen’s Park Crick­et Club and last year’s run­ners-up De­fence Force as the four semi­fi­nal qual­i­fiers in the T&T Hock­ey Board In­door Cham­pi­onship Men’s Open Di­vi­sion at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty on Sat­ur­day night.

The rush for in­spec­tion stick­ers led to a wind­fall of more than $10 mil­lion for Min­istry of Works and Trans­port (MOWT) ac­cord­ing to the draft es­ti­mates of rev­enue.

Gin­ger was the first. Striped or­ange and found in a drain af­ter a storm, it was a toss-up be­tween nam­ing him Gin­ger and Garfield. I was veer­ing to­wards Garfield be­cause of his “nine-months preg­nant” stom­ach but af­ter two lit­tle girls fell in love with both him and the name Gin­ger, his moniker was set in stone.

Now that Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has rung the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tion bell for De­cem­ber 2, it would seem that the sil­ly sea­son is well and tru­ly on, not on­ly out­side, but in­side Par­lia­ment. How else could one ex­plain the dis­trub­ing be­hav­iour of some Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment dur­ing last week’s ses­sions of the Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee.