Fam­i­lies reigned supreme at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah on Wednes­day night as two teenagers por­tray­ing cos­tumes de­signed by their par­ents were crowned this year’s Ju­nior King and Queen of Car­ni­val. An­to­nio Ram­per­sad and J’Nai Ed­wards each emerged vic­to­ri­ous over 14 for­mi­da­ble com­peti­tors to claim their sec­ond and first ti­tles, re­spec­tive­ly.

It was a fam­i­ly af­fair at the Eighth Street, Barataria home of cen­te­nar­i­an Nor­ma Puck­erin yes­ter­day, when her cousin, reign­ing Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch Machel Mon­tano, vis­it­ed her.

The pro­duc­tion de­lays that plagued the pre­lim­i­nary round of the Car­ni­val King and Queen com­pe­ti­tion last week were elim­i­nat­ed in the sec­ond stage of the com­pe­ti­tion on Wednes­day night. 

A 28-year-old mo­tor­cy­clist be­came this coun­try’s lat­est road fa­tal­i­ty when he crashed his bike dur­ing an ac­ci­dent in Curepe on Wednes­day night.

Al­though Car­ni­val is tak­ing place amid a state of emer­gency (SoE), busi­ness­es and vis­i­tors say they haven’t been neg­a­tive­ly af­fect­ed.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed con­tin­ues to man­age cleanup op­er­a­tions fol­low­ing an oil spill at Ves­signy Vil­lage, La Brea on Feb­ru­ary 25.

Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has ac­knowl­edged the tweet by US Sen­a­tor Mar­co Ru­bio could af­fect the re­la­tion­ship be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go, Venezuela and the Drag­on Gas deal. 

Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, (al­so Min­is­ter of En­er­gy) said the de­ci­sion was large­ly based on Oan­do’s strong fi­nan­cial track record, par­tic­u­lar­ly its $1.5 bil­lion ac­qui­si­tion of Cono­coPhillips’ as­sets in Nige­ria.

Prime Min­is­ter of Grena­da, Dick­on Mitchell, is set to lead a re­view of the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions en­vi­ron­ment in the re­gion. Mitchell is Lead Head of Gov­ern­ment with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy in the CARI­COM Qua­si Cab­i­net.

The Crop­per Foun­da­tion (TCF) is join­ing with oth­er glob­al en­ti­ties in cel­e­brat­ing World NGO Day to­day.

A New Grant man has been charged with the 2020 mur­ders of four men, in­clud­ing three for­eign na­tion­als, fol­low­ing years of ex­ten­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

An­to­nio Ram­per­sad and J'Nai Ed­wards have been crowned this year's Ju­nior Car­ni­val King and Queen.