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.

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.