The San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee has sus­pend­ed the com­pet­i­tive com­po­nent of San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val 2026, cit­ing re­duced fund­ing for the up­com­ing sea­son.

As na­tion­al ten­sions rise over crime, po­lice con­duct, and mount­ing calls for the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro to step down, three of the coun­try’s busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tions are urg­ing a calm, bal­anced, and non­po­lit­i­cal ap­proach to the coun­try’s deep­en­ing se­cu­ri­ty chal­lenges—is­sues that con­tin­ue to im­pact cit­i­zens, com­mu­ni­ties and the wider busi­ness sec­tor.

In a move that is re­shap­ing the re­gion­al sports land­scape, 18 young Trinida­di­ans have suc­cess­ful­ly trad­ed their text­books for head­sets and cam­eras, en­ter­ing the pro­fes­sion­al me­dia in­dus­try through a high-im­pact part­ner­ship be­tween KFC T&T and Rodeo Com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

Reez Mu­sic rock/fu­sion group will add to T&T's melt­ing pot mu­si­cal brew land­scape on Sat­ur­day (Jan­u­ary 31), when they per­form at an event where part pro­ceeds go to the UNICEF sup­port­ed ini­tia­tive "The Child Friend­ly Space." This fa­cil­i­tates a safe en­vi­ron­ment for mi­grant chil­dren to learn and play.

All fu­ture Iran­ian regimes are at risk of col­lapse, not just be­cause of US sanc­tions and Pres­i­dent Trump’s pos­si­ble bomb­ing, but be­cause of failed agri­cul­tur­al and wa­ter man­age­ment poli­cies. This col­umn will ex­tract lessons from Iran to ap­ply to T&T, which has al­so failed to use its oil rev­enue to be­come self-suf­fi­cient in food pro­duc­tion.