“Skin en­hance­ments” is the term one ma­ture pa­tron used to de­scribe the slate of sleek, sexy, and “ul­tra-re­veal­ing” cos­tumes pre­sent­ed by mas band YU­MA (Young + Up­ward­ly Mo­bile Adults) at the launch of their 2024 pre­sen­ta­tion, “On Tour” on Sat­ur­day night.

Neque por­ro quisquam est qui do­lorem ip­sum quia do­lor sit amet, con­secte­tur, adip­is­ci velit...

The post-mortem on San Fer­nan­do's dy­ing Car­ni­val took place at the San Fer­nan­do City Hall au­di­to­ri­um on Wednes­day night and was at­tend­ed by a hand­ful of stake­hold­ers who called for more con­sul­ta­tion, bet­ter routes and prop­er judg­ing cri­te­ria for next year's Car­ni­val.

Lo­cal chef Fin­bar “Bar­ry” Bartholomew showed Nic­ki Mi­naj his "sweet hand" for Car­ni­val.

Lost Tribe won with its pre­sen­ta­tion 202WE beat­ing Down­town Band of the Year Win­ners Ron­nie and Caro.

Bun­ji Gar­lin's "Hard Fete"—of­fi­cial­ly cred­it­ed to Bun­ji Gar­lin and Fay-Ann Lyons—was played 135 times at judg­ing points.

The Vis­it Trinidad Road March com­pe­ti­tion is on with con­tenders such as Bun­ji Gar­lin, Nailah Black­man and Skin­ny Fab­u­lous, Machel Mon­tano and Olan­tun­ji, the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­ga­ni­za­tion (TU­CO) has con­firmed.

New Or­leans’ an­nu­al Car­ni­val sea­son en­tered its ebul­lient crescen­do Tues­day with thou­sands of rev­ellers gath­er­ing in the French Quar­ter and lin­ing miles of pa­rade routes in a city­wide Mar­di Gras cel­e­bra­tion un­der­pinned this year by vi­o­lent crime con­cerns and po­lit­i­cal tur­moil.

Even though they had lit­tle cor­po­rate sup­port and lim­it­ed funds from the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion, Moru­ga res­i­dents came to­geth­er to host one of the "biggest, bright­est" Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions the com­mu­ni­ty has ever seen.

For the first time in his­to­ry, Fyz­abad—the bustling oil town which birthed the labour ri­ots—went dead on Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day.