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Forty-one schools in and around Port of Spain will be closed to­mor­row as Car­ni­val ac­tiv­i­ties in­ten­si­fy in the cap­i­tal.

In a mem­o­ran­dum dat­ed Feb­ru­ary 11, 2026, the Chief Ed­u­ca­tion Of­fi­cer is­sued in­struc­tions for the sus­pen­sion of class­es on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 13, 2026, for schools with­in the Port of Spain and En­vi­rons Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­trict.

A source with­in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion con­firmed the de­ci­sion was tak­en in an­tic­i­pa­tion of height­ened traf­fic as mul­ti­ple Car­ni­val events are ex­pect­ed to take place on Car­ni­val Fri­day.