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.

Pres­i­dent gen­er­al of the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union (OW­TU) An­cel Ro­get says the union is seek­ing to am­i­ca­bly re­solve mil­lions in debt, ac­cu­mu­lat­ed dur­ing its mul­ti­ple failed at­tempts to ac­quire the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery through its com­pa­ny, Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies.

Moru­ga pen­sion­er Bernadette Guer­rero had in­stalled re­in­forced se­cu­ri­ty doors at her home to keep out crim­i­nals.

The days of trav­ellers fill­ing out pa­per im­mi­gra­tion forms be­fore ar­riv­ing in T&T will soon be over, as an on­line sys­tem is ex­pect­ed to be in­tro­duced short­ly.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has hit back at his pre­de­ces­sor, Stu­art Young, fol­low­ing the lat­ter’s ques­tions about the Gov­ern­ment’s re­la­tion with act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez.

For the past two weeks, Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk has looked at po­lice-in­volved killings fol­low­ing the Jan­u­ary shoot­ing of Joshua Sama­roo.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les shared mes­sages of love and con­cern for Trinidad and To­ba­go on so­cial me­dia, re­flect­ing on Valen­tine’s Day and con­demn­ing a dead­ly shoot­ing in Cou­va.

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) has con­firmed the reg­is­tered sub­mis­sions for the Na­tion­al Road March Com­pe­ti­tion 2026.

The days of trav­ellers fill­ing out pa­per im­mi­gra­tion forms be­fore ar­riv­ing in T&T will soon end, as the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to in­tro­duce an on­line sys­tem.

The Gov­ern­ment is warn­ing Tribe mas­quer­aders to leave their sex toys at home this Car­ni­val, or face pos­si­ble jail time for se­ri­ous in­de­cen­cy.

So­ca artiste Bun­ji Gar­lin has en­tered the 2026 Road March com­pe­ti­tion, af­ter pre­vi­ous­ly de­clar­ing he would step away from the con­test fol­low­ing last year’s con­tro­ver­sy.