Hours af­ter se­nior na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials, in­clud­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, as­sured the na­tion that threat as­sess­ments ahead of Mon­day's In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions re­mained low, a new se­cu­ri­ty threat has emerged.

State-owned Ude­cott, which is the man­ag­er of the car park in down­town Port-of-Spain, an­nounced a $50 in­crease for re­served and VIP park­ing, in a no­tice post­ed around the Parkade, as part of its changes to its park­ing arrange­ment.

Wednes­day night’s 36-run de­feat against the St Lu­cia Kings at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain con­demned the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) to its sec­ond-worst start to a Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) sea­son in the 14-year his­to­ry of the tour­na­ment.

More than a cen­tu­ry ago, in the streets of Port-of-Spain, peo­ple seek­ing re­lief from ill­ness could find them­selves mov­ing be­tween worlds.

In­de­pen­dence Day is com­ing up, which means Trinidad and To­ba­go is get­ting ready for an­oth­er long week­end. Some­body is plan­ning a back­yard lime, go­ing some­where, eat­ing some­thing, def­i­nite­ly ar­gu­ing about traf­fic, and gen­er­al­ly en­joy­ing the fact that Mon­day is a hol­i­day.