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.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) gen­er­at­ed $2,449,584 dol­lars from this year's "Taste of Car­ni­val 2022".

This from Sec­re­tary of Tourism, Cul­ture, An­tiq­ui­ties and Trans­porta­tion Tashia Grace Bur­ris, who was speak­ing at the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA’s), dur­ing an ex­ec­u­tive coun­cil me­dia brief­ing, ti­tled “Man­date Mon­day” on Mon­day morn­ing.

A post-Car­ni­val spike in COVID-19 cas­es was record­ed. How­ev­er, ac­cord­ing to in­for­ma­tion pre­sent­ed by the Min­istry of Health's epi­demi­ol­o­gy di­vi­sion's tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor, Dr Av­ery Hinds, it was not sig­nif­i­cant enough to bur­den the coun­try.

Pan lovers came with their cool­ers and drinks to hear sweet pan mu­sic in the Grand Stand on Sat­ur­day and weren't dis­ap­point­ed. It wasn't a Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tion, how­ev­er, the medi­um and large steel­bands that took part in the “Mu­si­cal Show­down in De Big Yard” played their hearts out in sheer joy to the ap­pre­cia­tive au­di­ence.

The Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad & To­ba­go (BATT) has con­firmed that banks will op­er­ate un­der nor­mal bank­ing hours on Mon­day 28th Feb­ru­ary and Tues­day 1st March 2022—Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day, this year.

The an­nu­al re-en­act­ment of the Can­boulay Ri­ots of 1881, which forms part of the NCC’s an­nu­al Car­ni­val of­fer­ings, will not be put on this year by the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC), and will be held at NA­PA, Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts.

The an­nu­al re-en­act­ment of the Can­boulay Ri­ots of 1881, which forms part of the NCC’s an­nu­al Car­ni­val of­fer­ings, will not be put on this year by the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC), and will be held at NA­PA, Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts.

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) has an­nounced the line-up of artistes slat­ed to per­form in the Di­manche Gras show at 7:00 pm on Sun­day 27th Feb­ru­ary 2022, at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) has an­nounced the line-up of artistes slat­ed to per­form in the Di­manche Gras show at 7:00 pm on Sun­day 27th Feb­ru­ary 2022, at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has con­firmed that there will be nor­mal school op­er­a­tions on Mon­day 28 Feb­ru­ary and Tues­day 1 March 2022.