A to­tal of 18 songs have been en­tered for this year’s Road March race. The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (Tu­co) yes­ter­day con­firmed the reg­is­tered sub­mis­sions for the Na­tion­al Road March Com­pe­ti­tion 2026. Reg­is­tra­tion closed on Fri­day.

On Fri­day, so­ca star Bun­ji Gar­lin re­vealed that he en­tered the 2026 Road March com­pe­ti­tion, re­vers­ing his pre­vi­ous de­ci­sion to step away fol­low­ing last year’s con­tro­ver­sy.

Gar­lin had an­nounced in 2025 that he would no longer par­tic­i­pate in fu­ture Road March com­pe­ti­tions, af­ter nar­row­ly los­ing the ti­tle to Machel Mon­tano by 14 plays. Mon­tano’s Pardy was played 267 times to Gar­lin’s Car­ry It at 253, ac­cord­ing to fig­ures re­leased by Tu­co last year, ty­ing Mon­tano with the late Ald­wyn “Lord Kitch­en­er” Roberts for 11 Road March ti­tles.