The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) is again deny­ing claims of po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence in this year’s Ca­lyp­so Monarch judg­ing, but one vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian, Hol­lis “Chalk­dust” Liv­er­pool, in­sists the re­al prob­lem lies with poor­ly trained judges.

Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) pres­i­dent Ains­ley King is clar­i­fy­ing in­for­ma­tion now be­ing cir­cu­lat­ed via a voice note on so­cial me­dia, which ap­pears to sug­gest he is sup­port­ing a par­tic­u­lar ca­lyp­son­ian in the Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch fi­nal. He says the voice note is a cou­ple of years old and had noth­ing to do with this year’s com­pe­ti­tion.

A pair of past win­ners shared this year’s Ju­nior King of Car­ni­val ti­tle, cre­at­ing a rare tie at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah on Wednes­day night.

Twen­ty Car­ni­val Kings and 10 Car­ni­val Queens will com­pete at Sun­day night’s Di­manche Gras show.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les have both ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Bar­ba­dos’ re-elect­ed Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley and her Bar­ba­dos Labour Par­ty (BLP), which won all 30 seats in Wednes­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Gun­fire erupt­ed near the shore­line at Bayshore West, Mara­bel­la, on Mon­day night af­ter po­lice ex­changed shots with men aboard boats sus­pect­ed of of­fload­ing al­co­hol.

La Brea MP Clyde El­der has con­demned the theft of elec­tri­cal ca­bles from the Pt D’or Recre­ation Ground, de­scrib­ing it as a blow to com­mu­ni­ty de­vel­op­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les have ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Prime Min­is­ter Mia Amor Mot­t­ley fol­low­ing her his­toric third con­sec­u­tive vic­to­ry in Bar­ba­dos’ Feb­ru­ary 11, 2026, Gen­er­al Elec­tions.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says it has com­plet­ed its 2025/2026 na­tion­wide lap­top dis­tri­b­u­tion ex­er­cise to sup­port stu­dents tran­si­tion­ing from the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment, SEA, in­to Form 1 and teach­ers thus reaf­firm­ing Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to dig­i­tal ac­cess and eq­ui­table learn­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties.

Flow Trinidad joined the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty in ob­serv­ing Safer In­ter­net Day 2026 yes­ter­day with a re­newed fo­cus on per­son­al dig­i­tal re­spon­si­bil­i­ty un­der the theme: “Smart Tech, Safe Choic­es – Ex­plor­ing the Safe and Re­spon­si­ble Use of AI”.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­tend­ed best wish­es to cit­i­zens and vis­i­tors as Trinidad and To­ba­go ap­proach­es the cli­max of Car­ni­val 2026, urg­ing the pub­lic to cel­e­brate re­spon­si­bly and pri­ori­tise safe­ty.

Po­lice have not yet con­firmed the iden­ti­ty of a mu­ti­lat­ed fe­male body found along the M2 Ring Road in La Ro­maine yes­ter­day morn­ing.