“Be aware of your sur­round­ings. Don’t overindulge in al­co­hol. Don’t leave your drinks un­at­tend­ed.”

Mo­torists will be al­lowed to ac­cess the east­bound lane of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route for a few hours on Car­ni­val Mon­day, the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion (MT­CA) has con­firmed.

TTT Lim­it­ed has apol­o­gised for the au­dio in­ter­rup­tion that oc­curred dur­ing Helon Fran­cis’ per­for­mance of Doh For­get on Sun­day night at Di­manche Gras say­ing at no time did TTT pur­pose­ful­ly cut the au­dio.

Po­lice of­fi­cers found 51 weapons, in­clud­ing knives, scis­sors and ice picks, hid­den un­der the seats of maxi taxis en­ter­ing Port of Spain ear­ly on Car­ni­val Mon­day.

Eu­stace and Oma­lo were an­nounced as win­ners of the an­nu­al com­pe­ti­tion at the end of the Di­manche Gras show at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, ear­ly this morn­ing.

Lyons se­cured her sec­ond ti­tle, since her first win in 2020, at the end of the Di­manche Gras show at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, ear­ly this morn­ing.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath will be play­ing mas in Bliss to­day, while Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment leader Pen­ny Beck­les is ex­pect­ed to join Ari­ma’s J’Ou­vert and Mon­day mas. How­ev­er, sev­er­al oth­er UNC Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters and PNM mem­bers will not be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the mas.

Am­ri­ka Mutroo and Zach Ran­some have been crowned the Se­nior and Ju­nior Ch­agua­nas Ca­lyp­so Mon­archs for 2026, fol­low­ing a com­pet­i­tive fi­nal on the big stage at Ram­saran Street, Ch­agua­nas, on Sat­ur­day.

Rev­ellers will have two route op­tions for the Pa­rade of Se­nior Bands in Port-of-Spain to­day and to­mor­row.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion is urg­ing the pub­lic to treat road safe­ty as a per­son­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty this Car­ni­val sea­son, warn­ing that a sin­gle lapse in judge­ment could have ir­re­versible con­se­quences.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says the gov­ern­ment is keep­ing all op­tions on the ta­ble in its fight against crime, not­ing that a pos­si­ble re­turn of the death penal­ty can­not be ruled out.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has is­sued a stern warn­ing to the pub­lic, em­pha­sis­ing that weapons have no place in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions and that any­one found in pos­ses­sion will face se­ri­ous con­se­quences.