As Car­ni­val 2026 en­ters its fi­nal stretch, po­lice and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies have rolled out ex­pand­ed safe­ty mea­sures for events across the coun­try, with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firm­ing height­ened en­force­ment, wider de­ploy­ments and stricter con­trols for the sea­son’s ma­jor cel­e­bra­tions.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firmed that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has ac­ti­vat­ed Op­er­a­tion Se­cure De VIBES to pro­mote pub­lic safe­ty, or­der and re­spon­si­ble en­joy­ment dur­ing the Car­ni­val pe­ri­od.

She said the op­er­a­tion in­cludes high-vis­i­bil­i­ty polic­ing, manda­to­ry reg­is­tra­tion of large bands and or­ches­tras, pro­hi­bi­tions on weapons, fire­works and glass bot­tles, en­force­ment of noise reg­u­la­tions, and ac­tion against lewd be­hav­iour and the im­per­son­ation of po­lice of­fi­cers.