Car­ni­val 2026 gen­er­at­ed a bumper sea­son and re­in­forced Trinidad and To­ba­go’s po­si­tion as a world-class cul­tur­al des­ti­na­tion, the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion of Trinidad and To­ba­go have said.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued as the coun­try ob­served Ash Wednes­day, the Min­istry and the NCC cred­it­ed strong pub­lic par­tic­i­pa­tion, vi­brant events and co­or­di­nat­ed stake­hold­er sup­port for what they de­scribed as a suc­cess­ful and mem­o­rable fes­ti­val un­der the theme “Yuh Go Love Dis”.

They said com­mu­ni­ties across the coun­try drove the sea­son’s en­er­gy, from grass­roots ac­tiv­i­ties to ma­jor na­tion­al show­cas­es. The or­gan­is­ers point­ed to the Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tions as a cen­tral high­light, say­ing they brought com­mu­ni­ties to­geth­er in the spir­it of steel­band, filled venues with pride and reaf­firmed the place of the na­tion­al mu­si­cal in­stru­ment at the core of Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions.