The San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee has sus­pend­ed the com­pet­i­tive com­po­nent of San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val 2026, cit­ing re­duced fund­ing for the up­com­ing sea­son.

The first char­ter flight from Ghana could ar­rive in T&T in April if Trade, In­dus­try, and Tourism Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj has his way. Speak­ing with re­porters on Sun­day at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, Ma­haraj ex­plained that a di­rect T&T-Ghana con­nec­tion would “open new mar­kets, both for trade and in­vest­ment, but al­so, more im­por­tant­ly, for tourism”. 

The Min­istry of Health has is­sued an alert on We­govy tablets fol­low­ing re­ports of cir­cu­la­tion of a fal­si­fied prod­uct. The alert was is­sued on Feb­ru­ary 3, 2026, through the Chem­istry, Food and Drugs Di­vi­sion.

The Panora­ma medi­um band fi­nals will be held at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah this year af­ter dam­age to the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny forced or­gan­is­ers to aban­don plans to stage the event in To­ba­go.

Lib­er­ty Caribbean, op­er­a­tors of Flow, Lib­er­ty Busi­ness and BTC, has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to trans­lat­ing re­gion­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty in­to mea­sur­able eco­nom­ic and so­cial out­comes as Di­a­mond Spon­sor of CAN­TO Con­nect 2026 and the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s 42nd An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing.

TU­CO an­nounced fi­nal­ists for the Na­tion­al Ex­tem­po and Na­tion­al Freestyle Com­pe­ti­tions 2026 af­ter pre­lim­i­nary and se­mi-fi­nal rounds on Feb­ru­ary 2 at the Radis­son Ho­tel, Port of Spain. In ex­tem­po, fi­nal­ists Akeem Chance Preedy, Bri­an Lon­don, Joseph La Place­liere Lin­go, Kedell No­ray Dr Kno, My­ron Bruce Ca­lyp­so Nite, Nes­ta Box­ill Sekon Sta and Win­ston Pe­ters Gyp­sy will com­pete against Ex­tem­po Cham­pi­on Phillip Mur­ray Black Sage.

The Blue Wave Har­mo­ny de­part­ed the Port of Scar­bor­ough at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 7.15 am to­day and is en route to the Port of Port of Spain, where it is sched­uled to un­der­go re­pairs ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Trinidad & To­ba­go In­ter-Is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny.

One man was ar­rest­ed and a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion were seized dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in Laven­tille on Fri­day Jan­u­ary 30, 2026.

Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates have signed a bi­lat­er­al in­vest­ment agree­ment aimed at pro­mot­ing and pro­tect­ing in­vest­ments be­tween the two coun­tries.

The Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion has ad­vised all Car­ni­val 2026 ser­vice providers that they must ob­tain mu­nic­i­pal ap­proval be­fore en­ter­ing the city to op­er­ate dur­ing the sea­son. The cor­po­ra­tion is­sued the no­tice on so­cial me­dia, tar­get­ing providers trans­port­ing food, drinks, toi­lets or mu­sic in­to Port of Spain.

Pris­on­ers de­tained at Teteron Bar­racks and Staubles Bay in Ch­aguara­mas em­barked on a hunger strike yes­ter­day and have vowed to keep it up un­til they are re­moved from the fa­cil­i­ties, which they say are un­fit for hu­man oc­cu­pa­tion.

The mur­der of a Port-of-Spain man on Sun­day night, me­tres away from the Dun­can Street Po­lice Post, has been la­belled a gang- re­lat­ed in­ci­dent.