The TT Olympic Committee (TTOC) has taken precautions to deal with the threat of the novel coronavirus (covid19).

Group Fitness Leader Simone Gonzales of the Fitness Center Ltd, Leader of SG Fit Camp 2020 and her participants has made a donation of $10,709 to the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee #Teamttoathletewelfareandpreparationfund.  Funds came from part proceeds of class payments and participants’ voluntary donation over a six week period from January to mid February 2020.

On the 50th an­niver­sary of the 1970 Black Pow­er Rev­o­lu­tion, sev­er­al afro Trinida­di­an groups re­mem­bered the day by re­vis­it­ing build­ings in the cap­i­tal where pro­test­ers back then gath­ered.

This is what Carnival in Trinidad is not: a big party. A parade. A festival. A chance to get drunk in the streets, wear barely-there costumes and dance until the blisters on your feet grow blisters of their own.

Fifty years ago, thousands of people took to the streets in 55 days of demonstration that would be known as the Black Power Revolution, led by Chief Servant Makandal Daaga (then Geddes Granger) of the National Joint Action Committee (NJAC).

Olympic medallist Usain Bolt has once again touched down for Trinidad and Tobago Carnival.