A 29-year-old man who went to Corinth Hills in Ste Madeleine last night to col­lect mon­ey for Car­ni­val-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties was killed in a dri­ve-by shoot­ing.

Helon Fran­cis se­cured his sec­ond ti­tle fol­low­ing the Di­manche Gras show, ear­ly this morn­ing. It was his first ti­tle since his maid­en win in 2018. 

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of a quan­ti­ty of cash from an Ari­ma restau­rant when ban­dits blocked the path of the ve­hi­cle trans­port­ing the cash on Sat­ur­day night.

A 35-year-old man is be­ing treat­ed for cuts and in­juries he re­ceived af­ter be­ing at­tacked at a Rio Claro bar ear­ly on Sun­day morn­ing.

An 11-month-old boy has died af­ter he re­port­ed­ly suf­fo­cat­ed on vom­it at his fam­i­ly's Cu­mu­to home on Sun­day morn­ing.

Venezuela’s Min­is­ter of De­fence Vladimir Padri­no López has cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly re­ject­ed Guyanese Pres­i­dent Ir­fan Ali’s state­ment, ac­cus­ing the Span­ish-speak­ing coun­try of en­ter­ing Guyana’s ter­ri­to­r­i­al wa­ters with a navy ves­sel on Sat­ur­day.

When Re­pub­lic Bank Ex­o­dus took to the stage at ex­act­ly 10 o’ clock Sat­ur­day evening, it took them ex­act­ly sev­en min­utes and forty-five sec­onds, by the judges’ clock, to es­tab­lish its cre­den­tials as this year’s win­ning Large Con­ven­tion­al Band.

With prepa­ra­tions in place for the grand spec­ta­cle of Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day, San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris is en­cour­ag­ing rev­ellers to ex­pe­ri­ence J’Ou­vert in the south­ern city.

The Fam­i­ly Plan­ning As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (FPATT) is in dan­ger of los­ing its in­ter­na­tion­al ac­cred­i­ta­tion if it doesn’t take steps in key ac­tion ar­eas to strength­en its gov­er­nance op­er­a­tions, strate­gic plan­ning and hu­man re­sources de­vel­op­ment.

J’Ou­vert bands are cel­e­brat­ing a sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in par­tic­i­pants this year with some bands wel­com­ing be­tween 800 and 1,500 mas­quer­aders on­to the streets. Cos­tume prices range from $500 to $2,000.

Machel Mon­tano is the new Chut­ney So­ca Monarch af­ter wow­ing the judges with the song “Pep­per Vine” over the week­end, per­form­ing along­side Dru­patie Ram­goon­ai and La­dy La­va in the fi­nals at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do.

There has been an in­crease in the num­ber of bands par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Down­town Car­ni­val, Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne said yes­ter­day.