As Car­ni­val 2026 en­ters its fi­nal stretch, po­lice and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies have rolled out ex­pand­ed safe­ty mea­sures for events across the coun­try, with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firm­ing height­ened en­force­ment, wider de­ploy­ments and stricter con­trols for the sea­son’s ma­jor cel­e­bra­tions.

Deputy Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Ansar Ali is urg­ing the pub­lic to avoid “gy­rat­ing” on fire ve­hi­cles in tran­sit, as he says this can cause un­nec­es­sary de­lays for pos­si­ble life-threat­en­ing emer­gen­cies.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is laugh­ing off Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath’s ques­tion­able be­hav­iour at a Car­ni­val fete on Wednes­day night.

Car­ni­val con­tin­ues to at­tract vis­i­tors to our shores, but tourism of­fi­cials say the sea­son’s per­for­mance re­mains steady rather than ex­pand­ing, with re­peat vis­i­tors dom­i­nat­ing ar­rivals and lim­it­ing eco­nom­ic spin-off for lo­cal op­er­a­tors.

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.