Lost Tribe has se­cured the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion’s Large Band of the Year ti­tle and the over­all Band of the Year crown for Car­ni­val 2026 with its pre­sen­ta­tion of Is­land Cir­cus.

This was the word from mul­ti­ple Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion Band of the Year (Medi­um Cat­e­go­ry) win­ner K2K Al­liance & Part­ners, af­ter win­ning their third straight na­tion­al ti­tle yes­ter­day for their pre­sen­ta­tion of Pollen Hous­es.

Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don has urged Catholics to make this Lenten sea­son a time of true re­flec­tion, fast­ing and thanks­giv­ing, chal­leng­ing them to go be­yond tra­di­tion and even fast from so­cial me­dia while giv­ing alms to the poor.

“Bor­ing and un­event­ful”—that’s how some Tarou­ba res­i­dents de­scribed Car­ni­val this year, with the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) no­tably de­void of fetes for the first time in re­cent mem­o­ry.

Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) pres­i­dent Ains­ley King has moved to quell grow­ing anx­i­eties sur­round­ing the 2026 Car­ni­val sea­son, dis­miss­ing so­cial me­dia “mis­in­for­ma­tion” about Road March rules and promis­ing a com­pre­hen­sive re­view of the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s judg­ing process­es.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­firmed that she will trav­el to Bas­seterre, St Kitts and Nevis, on Mon­day evening to at­tend the 50th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment of Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com)—mark­ing her first face-to-face en­gage­ment with re­gion­al lead­ers since as­sum­ing of­fice for a sec­ond term.

Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions in Ch­agua­nas came to a rous­ing fi­nale on Tues­day, as thou­sands of rev­ellers and spec­ta­tors con­verged on the big stage at Ram­saran Street for the much-an­tic­i­pat­ed Pa­rade of the Bands.

For­mer En­vi­ron­men­tal Com­mis­sion chair­man Sunil Sookraj has filed a law­suit against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her Cab­i­net, over an al­leged de­ci­sion last year to re­voke his reap­point­ment.

Con­tro­ver­sial so­cial me­dia per­son­al­i­ty Gabriel “Bat­man” Har­ri­gin has been re­mand­ed to prison af­ter be­ing de­nied bail when he ap­peared in court charged with kid­nap­ping and rape.

An­oth­er re­li­gious leader is call­ing for a re­newed com­mit­ment to spir­i­tu­al val­ues amid mount­ing con­cern over what some view as the grow­ing sex­u­al­i­sa­tion of Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions.

The Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ES­CTT) has voiced strong sup­port for Helon Fran­cis, the 2025 Ca­lyp­so Monarch, fol­low­ing the dis­rup­tion of his per­for­mance at Di­manche Gras on Car­ni­val Sun­day night.

So­ca icon Machel Mon­tano has shared his ex­cite­ment and grat­i­tude af­ter win­ning the 2026 Trinidad and To­ba­go Road March, mark­ing a his­toric mile­stone and break­ing a 50-year record.