Mas­quer­aders hop­ing to chip through the streets with Jade Mon­key Car­ni­val dur­ing To­ba­go Car­ni­val 2026 will have to ad­just their plans. In a press re­lease, band leader Seon An­tho­ny an­nounced that the or­gan­i­sa­tion has made the dif­fi­cult de­ci­sion to can­cel its planned J’ou­vert pre­sen­ta­tion, ti­tled “Rise of the Em­pire”.

Na­tion­al En­tre­pre­neur­ial De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (NED­CO) CEO Dan­ny Ma­haraj says the state agency is step­ping up its dri­ve to help mi­cro and small en­tre­pre­neurs ex­pand their busi­ness­es, with op­por­tu­ni­ties emerg­ing for T&T com­pa­nies to en­ter the Cana­di­an mar­ket.

T&T’s se­nior foot­ballers were beat­en 1-0 by Cu­ra­cao in Thurs­day night's Con­ca­caf Na­tions League (CNL), group A en­counter at the Ergilio Ha­to Sta­di­um in Willem­stad. The re­sult push­es the So­ca War­riors clos­er to rel­e­ga­tion from League A to League B. Coach Derek King’s men have now lost all three match­es in the tour­na­ment and re­main on ze­ro points, the same as both Cos­ta Ri­ca and Nicaragua, who were sched­uled to face each oth­er at 10 pm on Thurs­day, at Nicaragua’s Na­tion­al Foot­ball Sta­di­um.

An ode to women, and to how they ought to be treat­ed by their sig­nif­i­cant oth­ers, can be heard in en­ter­tain­er Stephen Mar­celle’s sul­try vo­cals, David “Nyce­Na­tion” Pareira’s pen and Randy Williams’ vi­su­als. To­geth­er they have pro­duced Hap­py Birth­day, a lo­cal birth­day song for our ladies.

As al­ways, Oc­to­ber looks love­ly. There are pink rib­bons to look at in the bank while wait­ing in an aw­ful­ly long line with two tellers, pink la­bels in the su­per­mar­ket and pink bal­loons at the en­trance to a com­pa­ny whose staff have been asked to wear pink on Fri­day.