Po­lice of­fi­cers found 51 weapons, in­clud­ing knives, scis­sors and ice picks, hid­den un­der the seats of maxi taxis en­ter­ing Port of Spain ear­ly on Car­ni­val Mon­day.

Eu­stace and Oma­lo were an­nounced as win­ners of the an­nu­al com­pe­ti­tion at the end of the Di­manche Gras show at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, ear­ly this morn­ing.

Lyons se­cured her sec­ond ti­tle, since her first win in 2020, at the end of the Di­manche Gras show at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, ear­ly this morn­ing.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath will be play­ing mas in Bliss to­day, while Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment leader Pen­ny Beck­les is ex­pect­ed to join Ari­ma’s J’Ou­vert and Mon­day mas. How­ev­er, sev­er­al oth­er UNC Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters and PNM mem­bers will not be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the mas.

Am­ri­ka Mutroo and Zach Ran­some have been crowned the Se­nior and Ju­nior Ch­agua­nas Ca­lyp­so Mon­archs for 2026, fol­low­ing a com­pet­i­tive fi­nal on the big stage at Ram­saran Street, Ch­agua­nas, on Sat­ur­day.

Rev­ellers will have two route op­tions for the Pa­rade of Se­nior Bands in Port-of-Spain to­day and to­mor­row.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion is urg­ing the pub­lic to treat road safe­ty as a per­son­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty this Car­ni­val sea­son, warn­ing that a sin­gle lapse in judge­ment could have ir­re­versible con­se­quences.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says the gov­ern­ment is keep­ing all op­tions on the ta­ble in its fight against crime, not­ing that a pos­si­ble re­turn of the death penal­ty can­not be ruled out.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has is­sued a stern warn­ing to the pub­lic, em­pha­sis­ing that weapons have no place in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions and that any­one found in pos­ses­sion will face se­ri­ous con­se­quences.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal will con­tin­ue pitch­ing the restart of the Petrotrin re­fin­ery at the Guyana En­er­gy Con­fer­ence, which be­gins to­mor­row, and has as­sured that the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) re­mains en­gaged with the Gov­ern­ment on all re­fin­ery-re­lat­ed mat­ters.

Tris­ton Steeple has been crowned the first stick­fight­ing cham­pi­on of Ch­agua­nas. The 22-year-old of Or­ange Field Road, Cara­pichaima, de­feat­ed a bar­rage of sea­soned vet­er­ans and de­ter­mined new­com­ers on Fri­day night when the Ch­agua­nas Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee host­ed its in­au­gur­al stick­fight­ing com­pe­ti­tion on the mas­sive stage at Ram­saran Street.

This Panora­ma sea­son’s per­sis­tent front-run­ners, bP Rene­gades, were pipped at the line by Re­pub­lic Bank Ex­o­dus by a sin­gle point at Sat­ur­day’s Large Con­ven­tion­al Band Fi­nal, giv­ing the Tu­na­puna band its sec­ond con­sec­u­tive and sixth over­all ti­tle.