Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is call­ing on mas­quer­aders to re­frain from do­ing any­thing to em­bar­rass or hu­mil­i­ate them­selves or their loved ones while en­joy­ing the Car­ni­val rev­el­ry. Her com­ment came amidst calls by Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don for the Gov­ern­ment to reg­u­late the fes­tiv­i­ties.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has lashed out at Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment MPs who com­plained about the dis­rup­tion caused by the re­cent “Stink and Dut­ty” fete, ac­cus­ing them of po­lit­i­cal hypocrisy.

Fol­low­ing their sev­enth vic­to­ry in the medi­um-bands cat­e­go­ry, the Pan El­ders Steel Or­ches­tra may be en­ter­ing a new area of com­pe­ti­tion next Car­ni­val, ac­cord­ing to band leader Hol­lis­ter Smith.

Reign­ing cham­pi­ons Re­pub­lic Bank Ex­o­dus Steel­band will per­form ninth at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah when the Panora­ma Large Band Con­ven­tion­al fi­nals take place this Sat­ur­day.

Four-time stick­fight­ing cham­pi­on Sel­wyn John re­claimed his cov­et­ed King of the Rock ti­tle and was crowned Kalin­da King of Trinidad and To­ba­go af­ter de­feat­ing his nephew, An­der­son Mar­cano, in a jaw-drop­ping bout in Moru­ga yes­ter­day morn­ing.

It was a “Ram­page” on stage as stu­dents and par­ents “Link Up” at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts, where Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do’s Mar­cus Mc­Don­ald and St Pe­ter’s Pri­vate Pri­ma­ry School’s Ky­mani “Yung Ky­mani” Hec­tor-Kalloo cap­tured the 2026 Ju­nior So­ca ti­tles in a blaz­ing dis­play of youth­ful tal­ent.

For­mer work­ers of the Cabo Star are call­ing for eq­ui­ty af­ter its re­place­ment, the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny, was manned by for­eign sea­far­ers.

Po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Ka­ia Sealy is re­fus­ing to give up her fight for jus­tice even as she re­mains con­fined to a hos­pi­tal bed and con­tin­ues to be de­nied ac­cess to po­lice records and her per­son­al de­vices.

The search for two men who opened fire on po­lice of­fi­cers in Tu­na­puna on Mon­day night end­ed yes­ter­day af­ter they vol­un­tar­i­ly sur­ren­dered to au­thor­i­ties.

A St Joseph man was killed on Mon­day in what po­lice are de­scrib­ing as a re­venge at­tack fol­low­ing a day of gun-fu­elled ex­changes.

Through her grief, the moth­er of 45-year-old mur­der vic­tim Ash­ton Welles yes­ter­day ap­pealed to those in­volved in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty to change their lives.

Record­ing an al­ter­ca­tion on his cell­phone may have led to the fa­tal stab­bing of a 28-year-old labour­er in Long­denville on Mon­day, po­lice said.