Cruis­es on board the MV Har­bour Mas­ter have been can­celled for the re­main­der of the To­ba­go Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions be­cause of bad weath­er.

With just two days to go be­fore To­ba­go Car­ni­val, ho­tel and guest house oc­cu­pan­cy is es­ti­mat­ed to be ap­prox­i­mate­ly 80 per cent.

With Car­ni­val 2023 less than five months away, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val Bands As­so­ci­a­tion (TTC­BA) re­mains in tur­moil, en­gulfed by in­fight­ing, res­ig­na­tions and on­go­ing le­gal bat­tles.

To ac­com­mo­date all per­sons who wish to trav­el dur­ing the Car­ni­val pe­ri­od, the Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TTIT) has sched­uled ad­di­tion­al sail­ings and resched­uled oth­ers, on the seabridge. 

Wear­ing feath­ered cos­tumes which Li­onel Jages­sar de­signed more than a decade ago, hun­dreds of mas­quer­aders chipped down the streets of San Fer­nan­do in the blaz­ing heat for a fi­nal trib­ute to the icon­ic mas­man who died last Sat­ur­day .

This three-day event apt­ly called “Bago Jam--Rev­el in Par­adise” is the of­fi­cial pub­lic launch of To­ba­go Car­ni­val, which is sched­uled for Oc­to­ber.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he takes strong ob­jec­tions to a view that Trinidad should take the lead in To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val.

South African singer and song­writer, Nom­ce­bo Nothule Zikode, is sched­uled to be a part of Car­ni­val 2023 events host­ed by I.S. Pro­mo and Gem­i­ni Pro­duc­tion.

Plan­ning for To­ba­go Car­ni­val 2022 con­tin­ues apace, as of­fi­cials from the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) met with sev­er­al mem­bers of the Au­gus­tine Ad­min­is­tra­tion in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

Plan­ning for To­ba­go Car­ni­val 2022 con­tin­ues apace, as of­fi­cials from the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) met with sev­er­al mem­bers of the Au­gus­tine Ad­min­is­tra­tion in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

Can­cun, Mex­i­co (Melé Des­ti­na­tions) — Can­cun Car­ni­val start­ed off with a bang on Day 2 with a sweaty dancer­cise ses­sion led by Monk Dancers Michelle Bam­bai, Shaakir Grif­fith and Nan­di Yard.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Col­or­ful floats and flam­boy­ant dancers are de­light­ing tens of thou­sands jammed in­to Rio de Janeiro’s icon­ic Sam­badrome, putting on a de­layed Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tion af­ter the pan­dem­ic halt­ed the daz­zling dis­plays.