A to­tal of 18 songs have been en­tered for this year’s Road March race. The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (Tu­co) yes­ter­day con­firmed the reg­is­tered sub­mis­sions for the Na­tion­al Road March Com­pe­ti­tion 2026. Reg­is­tra­tion closed on Fri­day.

Down­town Port-of-Spain was the cen­tre of colour, en­er­gy and ex­cite­ment as scores of chil­dren took to the streets to frol­ic for this year’s Ju­nior Pa­rade of the Bands, leav­ing a trail of con­fet­ti, shin­ing dust and smil­ing faces in their wake.

Three for­mer cham­pi­ons, two queens, and a king are among 11 ca­lyp­so­ni­ans who will come up against reign­ing Ca­lyp­so Monarch Helon Fran­cis for the 81st Ca­lyp­so Monarch at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah this evening. The Ca­lyp­so Monarch, the most pres­ti­gious ti­tle dur­ing the Car­ni­val Sea­son, will be part of the Di­manche Gras, the show that ush­ers in the Great­est Show on Earth, Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val.

Af­ter a resched­uled semi­fi­nal at the So­cadrome on Fri­day night, Ravi Lakhan emerged as the win­ner of that round of the King of Car­ni­val com­pe­ti­tion.

One week af­ter grid­lock traf­fic en­gulfed the West­ern Penin­su­la for most of the day fol­low­ing the Stink and Dut­ty fete held at the Ch­aguara­mas He­li­port on Feb­ru­ary 7, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the par­ty can hap­pen again at the same lo­ca­tion next year.

When eight-year-old An­ge­lo Gore heard about a com­pe­ti­tion for a chance to per­form with Machel Mon­tano, he be­gan re­hears­ing im­me­di­ate­ly. He grabbed a mic, had his fam­i­ly record him, and sub­mit­ted his en­try.

Af­ter at­tend­ing more than 20 fetes this sea­son, pop­u­lar Slam 100.5 Ra­dio an­nounc­er Chis­lon “Verse” Ban­field, and host of CNC3’s The Par­ty Start car­ni­val pro­gramme, praised the qual­i­ty of this year’s so­ca mu­sic, high­light­ing the strong con­tri­bu­tions from younger artistes.

Pres­i­dent gen­er­al of the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union (OW­TU) An­cel Ro­get says the union is seek­ing to am­i­ca­bly re­solve mil­lions in debt, ac­cu­mu­lat­ed dur­ing its mul­ti­ple failed at­tempts to ac­quire the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery through its com­pa­ny, Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies.

Moru­ga pen­sion­er Bernadette Guer­rero had in­stalled re­in­forced se­cu­ri­ty doors at her home to keep out crim­i­nals.

The days of trav­ellers fill­ing out pa­per im­mi­gra­tion forms be­fore ar­riv­ing in T&T will soon be over, as an on­line sys­tem is ex­pect­ed to be in­tro­duced short­ly.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has hit back at his pre­de­ces­sor, Stu­art Young, fol­low­ing the lat­ter’s ques­tions about the Gov­ern­ment’s re­la­tion with act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez.

For the past two weeks, Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk has looked at po­lice-in­volved killings fol­low­ing the Jan­u­ary shoot­ing of Joshua Sama­roo.