Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the killing of a Curepe man yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Yes­ter­day, work­ers mixed ce­ment in the front yard of the house fever­ish­ly, but they ad­mit­ted to the Guardian they were not sure how much more work they would get at the site.

As I watched for the fourth straight year – 2023, 2024, 2025 and now 2026 – con­tests in Car­ni­val judged by peo­ple, I re­call al­ways why I love sports more than arts be­cause un­less the ref­er­ee or um­pire has a stinker or two, nor­mal­ly those on the sport­ing field find a way to con­jure up a re­sult that at least sug­gests fair play and a gen­er­al re­ward for en­deav­our, with more of­ten than not ab­solute and un­wa­ver­ing skill com­ing to the fore­front in most re­sults. The fol­low­ing quotes are im­por­tant for life lessons at Car­ni­val time, I be­lieve.

Car­ni­val Is Fash­ion 2 de­liv­ered an elec­tri­fy­ing show­case of cre­ativ­i­ty, at­tract­ing a larg­er au­di­ence than last year and trans­form­ing the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah Grand Stage in­to a vi­brant cel­e­bra­tion of fash­ion, mu­sic and mas­quer­ade.

The ri­val­ry be­tween the Unit­ed States and the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na must be close­ly ob­served by all na­tions and re­gions, big and small, in­clud­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go and Cari­com. The two glob­al be­he­moths now lead an en­er­gy race be­tween “pet­rostates” pri­ori­tis­ing fos­sil fu­els, like the US, Sau­di Ara­bia and Rus­sia, and “elec­trostates” pur­su­ing elec­tri­fi­ca­tion and clean en­er­gy, like Chi­na and Eu­rope.