Dis­cus­sions con­tin­ue in­to the fate of the Ca­lyp­so and Ex­tem­po monarch com­pe­ti­tions to­day and the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) Chair­man, Win­ston "Gyp­sy" Pe­ters hopes a de­ter­mi­na­tion can come as ear­ly as Tues­day af­ter­noon.

14 artistes will go up against GI for the 2022 Chut­ney So­ca Monarch. GI Be­har­ry will be de­fend­ing his ti­tle in 2022.

The NCC host­ed the TTPS, giv­ing a full brief­ing on the pre­pared­ness for the "Taste of Car­ni­val 2022", in ad­her­ence with guide­lines from the Min­istry of Health. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from NCC:

The NCC host­ed the TTPS, giv­ing a full brief­ing on the pre­pared­ness for the "Taste of Car­ni­val 2022", in ad­her­ence with guide­lines from the Min­istry of Health. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from NCC:

For­mer pres­i­dent of the T&T Car­ni­val Bands As­so­ci­a­tion (TTC­BA) Ger­ard Weekes says the Gov­ern­ment's pro­posed con­trolled Car­ni­val safe zones bub­ble will burst.

This was an­nounced this morn­ing by Chair­man of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion, Win­ston Gyp­sy Pe­ters, who re­vealed that the event will be held vir­tu­al­ly.

This was an­nounced this morn­ing by Chair­man of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion, Win­ston Gyp­sy Pe­ters, who re­vealed that the event will be held vir­tu­al­ly.

The Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts has is­sued a state­ment re­spond­ing to dis­cus­sion in the pub­lic do­main on its pro­pos­al for stag­ing Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions this year, ti­tled “ A Taste of Car­ni­val 2022”.

Chair­man of the To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber, Mar­tin George, is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to re­fo­cus its en­er­gies from at­tempt­ing to host Car­ni­val events this year in Safe Zones, and to put the em­pha­sis in­stead on the ed­u­ca­tion sec­tor, the econ­o­my and bat­tling COVID-19.

In cel­e­bra­tion of his first "icon­ic" win at the In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch (ISM), Dar­ryl "Farmer Nap­py" Hen­ry plans to have a live con­cert for his fans. In a tele­phone in­ter­view on Sat­ur­day, an elat­ed Hen­ry said all he cared about was win­ning the ti­tle.

Two weeks ago, a group of diehard pan lovers com­mit­ted to their cause as they plant­ed them­selves on the Greens at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah (QPS). Sport­ing sneak­ers, shorts and face masks, and armed with chairs, cool­ers and eats, they com­mem­o­rat­ed Panora­ma semis Sun­day amid a glob­al pause on in­ter­ac­tive ac­tiv­i­ties due to COVID. To­day, on this Valen­tine’s Day and on what would have been Di­manche Gras, it seems on­ly fit­ting to ex­tend the love trib­ute to the home of Panora­ma and T&T’s heart­beat of cul­ture, food and recre­ation, the QPS.

Car­ni­val lovers go­ing through with­draw­al symp­toms with the can­cel­la­tion of Car­ni­val 2021 were treat­ed to the spec­ta­cle of tra­di­tion­al Car­ni­val char­ac­ters at Trinci­ty Mall, Trinci­ty, on Sat­ur­day.