Lost Tribe won with its pre­sen­ta­tion 202WE beat­ing Down­town Band of the Year Win­ners Ron­nie and Caro.

Bun­ji Gar­lin's "Hard Fete"—of­fi­cial­ly cred­it­ed to Bun­ji Gar­lin and Fay-Ann Lyons—was played 135 times at judg­ing points.

The Vis­it Trinidad Road March com­pe­ti­tion is on with con­tenders such as Bun­ji Gar­lin, Nailah Black­man and Skin­ny Fab­u­lous, Machel Mon­tano and Olan­tun­ji, the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­ga­ni­za­tion (TU­CO) has con­firmed.

New Or­leans’ an­nu­al Car­ni­val sea­son en­tered its ebul­lient crescen­do Tues­day with thou­sands of rev­ellers gath­er­ing in the French Quar­ter and lin­ing miles of pa­rade routes in a city­wide Mar­di Gras cel­e­bra­tion un­der­pinned this year by vi­o­lent crime con­cerns and po­lit­i­cal tur­moil.

Even though they had lit­tle cor­po­rate sup­port and lim­it­ed funds from the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion, Moru­ga res­i­dents came to­geth­er to host one of the "biggest, bright­est" Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions the com­mu­ni­ty has ever seen.

For the first time in his­to­ry, Fyz­abad—the bustling oil town which birthed the labour ri­ots—went dead on Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day.

Ian "Bun­ji Gar­lin" Al­varez's "Hard Fete" was out front yes­ter­day as the lead­ing song for this year's Road March, but faced stiff com­pe­ti­tion from Nailah Black­man and Gamal "Skin­ny Fab­u­lous" Doyle's "Come Home" at judg­ing points in Port-of-Spain.

Sev­er­al of the big bands stayed away from the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah on Car­ni­val Mon­day, but those who crossed the stage ex­pressed ex­u­ber­ance over the re­turn of Car­ni­val af­ter the two-year hia­tus caused by the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tions put in place for the Moth­er of all Car­ni­vals have been suc­cess­ful in pre­serv­ing law and or­der dur­ing yes­ter­day’s J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions which marked the of­fi­cial start of the Car­ni­val 2023 street pa­rade.

Pow­der, wa­ter, paint, mud, foam, mu­sic, and J'Ou­vert-hun­gry rev­ellers. All these in­gre­di­ents came to­geth­er to pro­duce what was de­scribed as a bumper J'Ou­vert in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day.

We Dut­ty Hush Naughty and Nice, a pre­sen­ta­tion of Em­bling O’Gar­ro is the 2023 Ch­agua­nas J’Ou­vert band of the Year. The band al­so won the Large Band of the Year ti­tle. Plac­ing sec­ond in the Large Band cat­e­go­ry was Colours Erupt, a pre­sen­ta­tion of La Pen­ca En­ter­tain­ment and I Can­dy’s Jam 2023 placed third. The Small Band cat­e­go­ry was won by The Es­cape De­lad­ed a pre­sen­ta­tion of Red Army J’Ou­vert. In sec­ond place was Wet is Wet, a pre­sen­ta­tion of DJ Voom Voom and third, It Call­ing Me, a pre­sen­ta­tion of Re­hab J’Ou­vert.