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.

To­ba­go schools will re­main in op­er­a­tion on Mon­day 28 Feb­ru­ary and Tues­day 1st March 2022, be­cause of the de­fer­ral of car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions in To­ba­go to Oc­to­ber 2022. That's ac­cord­ing to a re­lease is­sued on Sun­day night by the Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

From go­ril­las in full PPE to blue dev­ils with res­pi­ra­tors and a new vari­ant of the COVID-19 virus, the pan­dem­ic played a ma­jor role in this year's Tra­di­tion­al and Con­ven­tion­al Mas In­di­vid­u­als Com­pe­ti­tion on Sun­day morn­ing.

From go­ril­las in full PPE to blue dev­ils with res­pi­ra­tors and a new vari­ant of the COVID-19 virus, the pan­dem­ic played a ma­jor role in this year's Tra­di­tion­al and Con­ven­tion­al Mas In­di­vid­u­als Com­pe­ti­tion on Sun­day morn­ing.

Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore says af­ter go­ing two years with­out Panora­ma, the first pan con­cert fol­low­ing the pan­dem­ic has brought a sense of re­lief in the steel­pan com­mu­ni­ty even though they had not re­ceived an al­lo­ca­tion as yet.

This year's Taste of Car­ni­val has no doubt gone sour for many as the Ca­lyp­so and Ex­tem­po com­pe­ti­tions will no longer be in the show­case.