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. 

Record Car­ni­val King Cur­tis Eu­stace and reign­ing Car­ni­val Queen Rox­anne Oma­lo added to their al­ready im­pres­sive tro­phy cab­i­net on Sun­day night at the Di­manche Gras show. 

Pardy and Car­ry It seem to be the favourite 2025 Road March con­tenders for mas­quer­aders on Car­ni­val Mon­day in down­town Port-of-Spain.

While the cap­i­tal city is usu­al­ly ac­cus­tomed to see­ing thou­sands of spec­ta­tors com­ing to wit­ness J’Ou­vert, that was not the case this time around in down­town Port-of-Spain, as the crowd yes­ter­day could on­ly be de­scribed as sparse.

Even as thou­sands of rev­ellers par­tied through the streets of San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day morn­ing, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s de­ci­sion to step down and the de­ba­cle sur­round­ing sus­pend­ed Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher still found their way on stage dur­ing J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions.

To­ba­go’s J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions got off to a smooth but qui­et start yes­ter­day morn­ing, with no­tice­ably low­er par­tic­i­pa­tion than in pre­vi­ous years. In Scar­bor­ough, the fes­tiv­i­ties be­gan lat­er than usu­al, at around 7 am, with more mas­quer­aders than spec­ta­tors. 

From as ear­ly as 3 am yes­ter­day, spec­ta­tors be­gan gath­er­ing along Ram­saran Street, where the stage was set up.

Rev­ellers from Ari­ma, Arou­ca and Va­len­cia head­ed to San­gre Grande yes­ter­day to kick off their Car­ni­val Mon­day cel­e­bra­tions.

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

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.

A 29-year-old man who went to Corinth Hills in Ste Madeleine to col­lect mon­ey for Car­ni­val-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties was shot dead on Sun­day night.