With days to go be­fore mas­quer­aders flood the streets for Car­ni­val 2026, Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) deputy chair­man Ke­van Gibbs says all signs are point­ing to a bumper sea­son.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia at Fla­va Vil­lage in the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, Gibbs de­scribed an at­mos­phere of re­newed en­er­gy and record-break­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion, not­ing that at­ten­dance at NCC events has al­ready sur­passed last year’s fig­ures—with the Fla­va Vil­lage be­ing the most pop­u­lar of the NCC ac­tiv­i­ties.

“I had a con­ver­sa­tion with a se­nior mem­ber of the NCC man­age­ment that told me in 2025, a to­tal of 76,000 peo­ple at­tend­ed NCC events in gen­er­al,” Gibbs said.