Three masked men at­tacked a fam­i­ly at their Pe­nal home late Mon­day night, killing a 62-year-old re­tiree dur­ing a vi­o­lent rob­bery.

A day af­ter a mu­sic truck killed San Fer­nan­do res­i­dent and flag bear­er Sel­wyn Lit­tle dur­ing Car­ni­val Mon­day cel­e­bra­tions, Mon Re­pos/Navet Coun­cil­lor Nigel Cout­ti­er ex­pressed sor­row over the in­ci­dent.

On Car­ni­val Mon­day, of­fi­cers seized sev­er­al weapons and ar­rest­ed a man dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion at San Fer­nan­do J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions.

Po­lice are search­ing for a man who stabbed an el­der­ly labour­er to death be­fore at­tack­ing his cousin at their Vista­bel­la home on Car­ni­val Mon­day.

Kes The Band touched hearts and unit­ed bod­ies in move­ments and melodies when they cel­e­brat­ed their 20th an­niver­sary in fine style at the IzWe Fes­ti­val last Tues­day night.

Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions in San Fer­nan­do were marred yes­ter­day af­ter a mu­sic truck crushed a 74-year-old rev­eller to death on Cipero Street.

Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says he’s hap­py at the lev­el of en­er­gy and pos­i­tiv­i­ty the coun­try has seen in the lead-up to Car­ni­val 2025.

Sev­er­al knives, ice picks, scis­sors, glass bot­tles and im­pro­vised weapons were be­lieved to have been aban­doned by “trou­ble­mak­ers” en­ter­ing down­town Port-of-Spain, po­lice said as sev­er­al road­blocks and check­points were es­tab­lished on the out­skirts of the city ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Helon Fran­cis wrote his way to this year’s Ca­lyp­so Monarch ti­tle with a heart­felt let­ter to the coun­try’s next Prime Min­is­ter, whomev­er it may be.

British tourists Arin and Han­nah, who are in Trinidad and To­ba­go to cel­e­brate Car­ni­val 2025, ad­mit­ted that when they first learned about the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE), they were a bit wor­ried. 

Al­most a week af­ter the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) sent an evic­tion no­tice to the Mil­i­tary Mu­se­um, of­fi­cials locked the cu­ra­tor out of the premis­es on J’Ou­vert morn­ing. 

Af­ter plac­ing third in Sun­day’s Ca­lyp­so Monarch, Seal Lots res­i­dent Akhen­aton “Yung Bred­da” Lewis cel­e­brat­ed with his neigh­bours in the com­mu­ni­ty dur­ing their Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions yes­ter­day.