Two men who went miss­ing on Sat­ur­day, af­ter ven­tur­ing in­to the man­grove swamp off Clax­ton Bay to gath­er oys­ters, were lat­er found drift­ing off­shore near La Brea yes­ter­day.

A body found in San Raphael is be­lieved to be that of Sir Ja­mal Ram­per­sad, who was re­port­ed miss­ing last Wednes­day.

St Fran­cois Val­ley Stars took top ho­n­ours with 277 points, while BATCE and Sap­phon­ic Steel tied for sec­ond on 274 points.

Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore has un­der­scored the need for ear­ly and mean­ing­ful con­sul­ta­tion with the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion ahead of the 2027 Na­tion­al Schools’ Panora­ma, fol­low­ing con­cerns raised over venue changes for the 2026 fi­nals.

For 23 years, St Mary’s Col­lege (CIC) Fete with the Saints has marked the high point of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val cal­en­dar.

As Car­ni­val sea­son ap­proach­es, tat­too cul­ture is gain­ing mo­men­tum across Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider Caribbean—not just as a fash­ion state­ment, but as an art form, a ca­reer path and a pow­er­ful way to ex­press cul­ture and iden­ti­ty.

The Klas­sic Ru­so ca­lyp­so tent opened Thurs­day evening at City Hall, Port-of-Spain, show­cas­ing a mix of ex­pe­ri­ence and youth, blend­ing so­cial com­men­tary and hu­mour with par­ty and se­ri­ous ca­lyp­soes at the Fred­er­ick Street venue.

With a month re­main­ing in the Car­ni­val 2026 sea­son, pa­trons at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain on Fri­day night were able to en­joy a free Car­ni­val con­cert that brought sev­er­al of the sea­son’s biggest per­form­ers to a pub­lic stage, of­fer­ing ac­cess to high-pro­file en­ter­tain­ment for those who may not be able to af­ford tick­et­ed events.

De­spite the late can­cel­la­tion of Car­ni­val venues by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in No­vem­ber, par­ty pro­mot­er Shel­don Stephen said he was sat­is­fied with this year’s stag­ing of the an­nu­al Xpe­ri­ence fete, held at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do, on Sat­ur­day.

A con­trac­tor has suc­cess­ful­ly sued his for­mer ro­man­tic part­ner over own­er­ship of a ve­hi­cle she pur­chased on his be­half while he was strand­ed in Cana­da dur­ing the covid-19 pan­dem­ic in 2020. 

It’s been al­most 17 years since the Colo­nial Life In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny (Cli­co) ran in­to a liq­uid­i­ty cri­sis and its chair­man, Lawrence Duprey, went cap-in-hand to the gov­ern­ment for a bailout, which even­tu­al­ly led to the dis­man­tling of the coun­try’s largest con­glom­er­ate, CL Fi­nan­cial (CLF), the par­ent of the in­sur­ance com­pa­ny.

Af­ter 15 years, the Cen­tral Bank’s civ­il case against the CL Fi­nan­cial (CLF) group be­gan on Jan­u­ary 6 be­fore Jus­tice Robin Mo­hammed.