What­ev­er the weath­er out­look for this evening, Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore is in­tent that “no bad breeze (can) blow” in the di­rec­tion of a resched­uled Panora­ma Medi­um Band fi­nal at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

As Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo in­ten­si­fies ef­forts to clamp down on il­le­gal gam­bling while ex­pand­ing state-reg­u­lat­ed lot­tery gam­ing to Sun­days, some booths in San Fer­nan­do re­port­ed steady busi­ness on the first week­end of the new draw sched­ule yes­ter­day.

A 20-year-old Venezue­lan woman was res­cued and two sus­pects were held fol­low­ing a re­port­ed kid­nap­ping near Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, on Fri­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly de­nied claims that the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) is seek­ing to in­flu­ence Wednes­day’s (Feb­ru­ary 11) elec­tion in Bar­ba­dos.

A St Joseph woman was ar­rest­ed and is ex­pect­ed to be charged with lar­ce­ny, af­ter she stole a bag con­tain­ing a lap­top and oth­er valu­ables from the bar at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel in Port-of-Spain.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says 20 out of 21 leaks on the Point Lisas De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (Plipde­co) Es­tate have been re­paired, and by this week, all will be com­plet­ed and Padarath has blamed for­mer min­is­ter of util­i­ties Mar­vin Gon­za­les for fail­ing to ad­dress the is­sue, which was re­spon­si­ble for a $250 mil­lion loss an­nu­al­ly for the state util­i­ty.

An Aer­o­bics and Zum­ba Work­out has been added to the cal­en­dar of events to boost cel­e­bra­tions staged by the Cou­va Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee (CCC) for 2026.

Brit­ton passed away on Thurs­day night in the In­ten­sive Care Unit at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he had been ad­mit­ted since last Sun­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL) says a fire at the Beetham Land­fill has been con­tained.

So­cadrome Vil­lage will re­turn for Car­ni­val 2026 at the Jean Pierre Com­plex, with or­gan­is­ers promis­ing an ex­pand­ed and reimag­ined cul­tur­al space un­der the theme Rhythms of the Re­pub­lic.

Pa­trons danced, wined and gy­rat­ed at Ravi B’s Re­union par­ty at Tantra Ter­races, San­gre Grande, on Sat­ur­day night. The event was filled to ca­pac­i­ty, and some tick­et-hold­ers were turned away when the fire ser­vice re­strict­ed en­try to pre­vent over­crowd­ing. Those af­fect­ed were re­fund­ed and of­fered apolo­gies.

More than $50,000 in cash and prizes will be award­ed when the Cou­va Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee stages its an­nu­al queen pageant on Valen­tine’s Day 2026.