The pres­sure is on for medi­um and large steel­bands as they gear up for the Panora­ma Fi­nals for Car­ni­val 2026.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo ad­min­is­tered the oaths. Chief Jus­tice Mr Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh at­tend­ed.

A 71-year-old San Fer­nan­do man was at­tacked in his home by Span­ish-speak­ing ban­dits who robbed him of his car.

PANA­MA CITY -Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has pushed back against crit­i­cism of Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen, re­ject­ing claims he is act­ing uni­lat­er­al­ly as the Gov­ern­ment moves to raise nat­ur­al gas prices and dis­man­tle sub­si­dies.

Trinidad and To­ba­go fea­tured twice on the Gram­my stage last night, with lo­cal tal­ent recog­nised across mu­sic video and clas­si­cal cat­e­gories.

Anger and grief erupt­ed yes­ter­day as friends, fam­i­ly, and sup­port­ers de­mand­ed the res­ig­na­tions of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro and Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der. The calls fol­lowed a brazen po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in St Au­gus­tine that left Joshua Sama­roo dead and his com­mon-law wife, Ka­ia Sealy, crit­i­cal­ly in­jured and paral­ysed.

Con­sti­tu­tion­al at­tor­ney Gre­go­ry Delzin has warned that “be­hav­iour” can­not be used as the le­gal ba­sis for de­clar­ing an­oth­er State of Emer­gency (SoE), as de­bate in­ten­si­fies over Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s threat to reim­pose emer­gency pow­ers if vi­o­lence re­sumes.

An East Port-of-Spain man was gunned down while lim­ing with friends on the road yes­ter­day, me­tres away from the River­side Plaza and Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion.

The Gov­ern­ment’s move to im­pose tax­es on lo­cal artistes will be ad­dressed by the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) af­ter Car­ni­val 2026.

Pas­sen­gers aboard the T&T Spir­it were left strand­ed for hours yes­ter­day, af­ter rough seas and re­port­ed tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties de­layed the ves­sel’s ar­rival in To­ba­go.

Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion Deputy May­or Jo­van Roberts says no Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-led re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tion is un­der probe for al­leged cor­rup­tion - but there have been is­sues in two Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) cor­po­ra­tions.

Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) pres­i­dent Ains­ley King says ca­lyp­so is not on­ly alive but soar­ing, de­clar­ing that the art­form is firm­ly in good hands as it con­tin­ues to en­joy re­newed en­er­gy and pub­lic sup­port.