Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing skele­tal re­mains dis­cov­ered in Brazil Vil­lage on Fri­day evening.

At a time when climb­ing food prices feel like a week­ly rit­u­al and in a Car­ni­val land­scape dom­i­nat­ed by large, high-bud­get mas­quer­ade bands, one mi­ni Car­ni­val band in Bel­mont, bear­ing the name of one of T&T’s most trea­sured band­lead­ers, is chal­leng­ing the norm with a sim­ple but trans­for­ma­tive idea with its Pay What You Can “bonus” of­fer­ing.

Tyri­co Red­man-Bel­lamy and Ja­mar­co John­son scored two goals each as Bar­ba­dos made it two wins from as many match­es with a straight­for­ward 7-1 ham­mer­ing of Sint Mar­tin in the open­ing match of a Group A dou­ble-head­er in the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Men’s Qual­i­fiers on Sat­ur­day.

There’s a huge chance your favourite pow­er so­ca tunes for 2026 were pro­duced by the same per­son. In fact, many be­lieve he has per­fect­ed the “for­mu­la.” From Bun­ji Gar­lin’s Still A Road Man and Machel Mon­tano’s En­core, to Mi­cal Te­ja and Patrice Roberts’ Cap­i­tal, Xplic­it­Mevon (Mevon Sood­een) is pow­er­ing through the 2026 Car­ni­val sea­son.

It has be­come the norm for the par­ty elect­ed to form the gov­ern­ment to adopt its po­lit­i­cal man­i­festo as the coun­try’s of­fi­cial pol­i­cy frame­work. The prob­lem is that par­ty man­i­festos are broad state­ments of in­tent with few clear ob­jec­tives. They may give some idea of the di­rec­tion the par­ty wants to take, but man­i­festos are of­ten glossy PR doc­u­ments, on­ly loose­ly ground­ed in da­ta. The dev­il is in the de­tails, and gov­ern­ment re­quires de­tail and co­or­di­na­tion.