Cou­va Car­ni­val may just turn out to be the “Moth­er-in-law of all Car­ni­vals” un­less the com­mit­tee gets fund­ing from the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion.

Bri­an Lon­don com­plet­ed a hat-trick of wins as the Ex­tem­po Monarch on Thurs­day evening, beat­ing vet­er­an and mul­ti­ple-time cham­pi­on Win­ston ‘Gyp­sy’ Pe­ters at the Queens Park Sa­van­nah.

Af­ter three years of thirst­ing for the Gayelle, Rio Claro bo­is­man Sel­wyn John won his fourth ti­tle at the Na­tion­al Stick­fight­ing Com­pe­ti­tion last night.

Af­ter two years with­out Car­ni­val fes­tiv­i­ties, rev­ellers can once again “be wot­less” on the stage and the road to their favourite so­ca song.

The Chair­man of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC), Win­ston ‘Gyp­sy’ Pe­ters, has said it does not make eco­nom­ic sense to have Car­ni­val in To­ba­go at the same time as Trinidad Car­ni­val.

The Chair­man of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC), Win­ston ‘Gyp­sy’ Pe­ters, has said it does not make eco­nom­ic sense to have Car­ni­val in To­ba­go at the same time as Trinidad Car­ni­val.

The Katzen­jam­mers Steel Or­ches­tra tast­ed sweet vic­to­ry on Sun­day night, when the band out of Black Rock, To­ba­go won the 2023 Medi­um Con­ven­tion­al Band ti­tle.

Three for­mer Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Mon­archs are among the 11 ca­lyp­so­ni­ans who have se­cured places in the fi­nals of the com­pe­ti­tion at Di­manche Gras on Car­ni­val Sun­day night.

A so­cial ac­tivist has threat­ened to sue the Cab­i­net over Car­ni­val reg­u­la­tions that seek to out­law singing or recital of lewd or of­fen­sive songs and pre­vent rev­ellers from in­dulging in im­moral, lewd and of­fen­sive be­hav­iour or ges­tures. 

As chil­dren chipped along the South­ern Main Road, Mara­bel­la, yes­ter­day in cos­tumes show­cas­ing the mag­nif­i­cence of Car­ni­val, chair­man of the Mara­bel­la Fes­ti­vals Coun­cil Al­lan Camp­bell ap­pealed to gun­men to put down their guns and let the chil­dren play.

The T&T Red Cross Chil­dren's Car­ni­val fond­ly known as Kid­dies Car­ni­val got off to a late start around 12:15 than the sched­uled 11 am at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

Car­ni­val in Trinidad dur­ing the ’90s is yet to be recog­nised as a decade that de­liv­ered a sig­nif­i­cant turn­ing point for the Car­ni­val arts. In an am­bi­tious trib­ute, five aca­d­e­mics, a play­wright and pho­tog­ra­ph­er weave their ob­ser­va­tions in­to a fas­ci­nat­ing col­lec­tion that stud­ies a decade and of­fers an in­ti­mate lens in­to and crit­i­cal sur­vey of the con­tem­po­rary works of mas by artist Pe­ter Min­shall.