Thou­sands packed the streets of Bon Ac­cord and Crown Point on Sat­ur­day for the J'Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tion at To­ba­go's Car­ni­val. The event took the form of a pa­rade that start­ed in the vicin­i­ty of the Bon Ac­cord Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School and head­ed straight for Crown Point. There were no judg­ing points.

The Mer­ry Monarch is ex­pect­ed to reign on the streets and en­ter­tain­ment are­nas of T&T once again come Jan­u­ary and Feb­ru­ary 2023. Fu­elled by the pent-up en­er­gy and an­tic­i­pa­tion com­ing off of the pan­dem­ic which con­strained fes­tiv­i­ties for the past two years, Car­ni­val 2023 or C2K23 is ex­pect­ed to be a mega one. Lead­ing the charge in de­clar­ing the 2023 fes­ti­val “The Moth­er of All Car­ni­vals” is the gov­ern­ing body for Car­ni­val the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC).

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).