Even though Car­ni­val 2023 has been dubbed the Moth­er of all Car­ni­vals, yes­ter­day’s open­ing of the two-day rev­el­ry failed to at­tract the usu­al crowd of spec­ta­tors that of­ten line the streets, anx­ious­ly await­ing the of­fi­cial 4 am start of J’Ou­vert.

 Jacqui Koon How’s Dat is a Tri­ni has copped the Kid­dies Band of the Year ti­tle for Ch­agua­nas Car­ni­val 2023.

Ray­mond Mark and Priya Na­gas­sar eclipsed nine com­peti­tors in each com­pe­ti­tion to cop the top prizes at the end of the Di­manche Gras show at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, a short while ago.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is urg­ing cit­i­zens and vis­i­tors to have a safe Car­ni­val.

Machel Mon­tano and the One Show team is­sued a state­ment to the pub­lic this af­ter­noon, apol­o­gis­ing to pa­trons of the show who ex­pe­ri­enced var­i­ous chal­lenges get­ting in and en­joy­ing the show.

BP Rene­gades has come out on top af­ter a thrilling Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tion at the Queens Park Sa­van­nah, last night.

Caribbean Air­lines host­ed an ex­tra spe­cial “Wel­come Home” to scores of vis­i­tors ar­riv­ing at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, Trinidad ter­mi­nal, treat­ing them to a taste of ‘Tri­ni Car­ni­val’.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go gets in­to gear for the ul­ti­mate events of Car­ni­val 2023, Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter, Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, is urg­ing cit­i­zens to "not aban­don our un­der­stand­ing of the en­vi­ron­ment, the im­pacts of our be­hav­iours on it, and the im­por­tance of its pro­tec­tion dur­ing this time."

  Hillview Col­lege held its an­nu­al Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions on Fri­day at the school's com­pound in Tu­na­puna. The theme was “Re­new­al”

Ri­car­do 'Dad­dy Chi­nee' Melville was crowned Chut­ney So­ca Monarch 2023 in front of a crowd of ap­prox­i­mate­ly 6,000 peo­ple.

Par­ents and guardians of chil­dren, who will be out at var­i­ous lo­ca­tions dur­ing the Car­ni­val pe­ri­od, are be­ing urged to tag their off-spring in the event they are lost or wan­der off.

Al­though the pub­lic and es­pe­cial­ly her fans may be look­ing for­ward to her hu­mor­ous side once again on the Ca­lyp­so Monarch stage tonight, reign­ing Ca­lyp­so Monarch Ter­ri Lyons says she has more press­ing is­sues to ad­dress.