A 19-year-old Venezue­lan man was hacked to death dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in San Fer­nan­do ear­ly on Sun­day morn­ing.

Tris­ton Steeple has been crowned the first stick­fight­ing cham­pi­on of Ch­agua­nas. Steeple, 22, of Or­ange Field Road, Cara­pichaima, Cen­tral Trinidad, de­feat­ed a bar­rage of sea­soned vet­er­ans and de­ter­mined new­com­ers on Fri­day night, when the Ch­agua­nas Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee host­ed its in­au­gur­al stick­fight­ing com­pe­ti­tion on the mas­sive stage at Ram­saran Street.

PanTrin­ba­go has con­grat­u­lat­ed Re­pub­lic Bank Ex­o­dus Steel Or­ches­tra on win­ning the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Panora­ma 2026 – Large Con­ven­tion­al Band Fi­nals.

One day af­ter a brazen day­light shoot­ing at a Cou­va com­mu­nal play­park left a cou­ple dead, res­i­dents re­main trau­ma­tised and afraid to leave their homes. Blood­stains were still vis­i­ble on the grass and road at the play­park, and an eerie si­lence blan­ket­ed the com­mu­ni­ty at Jade Court when Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed yes­ter­day. A foot­ball and a lol­lipop on the play­ground were stark re­minders of the ter­ror that un­fold­ed on Fri­day, when De­vaughn Tou­s­saint, 38, and his girl­friend, Amelia Her­nan­dez, 34, were killed.

At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing Ka­ia Sealy have suc­cess­ful­ly chal­lenged the ac­tions of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) in the re­ten­tion of her elec­tron­ic de­vices fol­low­ing the po­lice shoot­ing of Jan­u­ary 20, which left her part­ner Joshua Sama­roo dead.

A to­tal of 18 songs have been en­tered for this year’s Road March race. The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (Tu­co) yes­ter­day con­firmed the reg­is­tered sub­mis­sions for the Na­tion­al Road March Com­pe­ti­tion 2026. Reg­is­tra­tion closed on Fri­day.

Down­town Port-of-Spain was the cen­tre of colour, en­er­gy and ex­cite­ment as scores of chil­dren took to the streets to frol­ic for this year’s Ju­nior Pa­rade of the Bands, leav­ing a trail of con­fet­ti, shin­ing dust and smil­ing faces in their wake.

Three for­mer cham­pi­ons, two queens, and a king are among 11 ca­lyp­so­ni­ans who will come up against reign­ing Ca­lyp­so Monarch Helon Fran­cis for the 81st Ca­lyp­so Monarch at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah this evening. The Ca­lyp­so Monarch, the most pres­ti­gious ti­tle dur­ing the Car­ni­val Sea­son, will be part of the Di­manche Gras, the show that ush­ers in the Great­est Show on Earth, Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val.

Af­ter a resched­uled semi­fi­nal at the So­cadrome on Fri­day night, Ravi Lakhan emerged as the win­ner of that round of the King of Car­ni­val com­pe­ti­tion.

One week af­ter grid­lock traf­fic en­gulfed the West­ern Penin­su­la for most of the day fol­low­ing the Stink and Dut­ty fete held at the Ch­aguara­mas He­li­port on Feb­ru­ary 7, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the par­ty can hap­pen again at the same lo­ca­tion next year.

When eight-year-old An­ge­lo Gore heard about a com­pe­ti­tion for a chance to per­form with Machel Mon­tano, he be­gan re­hears­ing im­me­di­ate­ly. He grabbed a mic, had his fam­i­ly record him, and sub­mit­ted his en­try.

Af­ter at­tend­ing more than 20 fetes this sea­son, pop­u­lar Slam 100.5 Ra­dio an­nounc­er Chis­lon “Verse” Ban­field, and host of CNC3’s The Par­ty Start car­ni­val pro­gramme, praised the qual­i­ty of this year’s so­ca mu­sic, high­light­ing the strong con­tri­bu­tions from younger artistes.