Junior parang season kicks off

The ju­nior parang sea­son kicks off this week­end in Moru­ga, as 36 pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary schools pre­pare to com­pete for mu­si­cal ho­n­ours at the Ju­nior Parang Fes­ti­val 2026.

Host­ed by the Na­tion­al Parang As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NPATT), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, the two-day com­pe­ti­tion takes place at the Moru­ga Mul­ti-Pur­pose Youth and Sport Fa­cil­i­ty on No­vem­ber 14 and 15.

The venue car­ries its own parang his­to­ry, with Moru­ga Sec­ondary School hav­ing won the com­pe­ti­tion three con­sec­u­tive times, in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Twen­ty pri­ma­ry schools will com­pete on Sat­ur­day, with de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Mor­vant Epiphany An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School per­form­ing ninth in the line-up.

Last year's run­ners-up, Sa­cred Heart Girls' RC School and Ari­ma Boys' RC School, will al­so re­turn, per­form­ing 12th and 11th re­spec­tive­ly.

The sec­ondary school com­pe­ti­tion takes place on Sun­day, with de­fend­ing joint cham­pi­ons Bish­op Anstey High School, Port of Spain, and Queen's Roy­al Col­lege per­form­ing 10th, fol­lowed by St Joseph's Con­vent, St Joseph, at 14th.

Last year's run­ners-up, St Mary's Col­lege, will com­bine with St Joseph's Con­vent, Port of Spain, to open Sun­day's com­pe­ti­tion.

Pro­ceed­ings be­gin at 9 am each day with the Trib­ute to the Icons, fol­lowed by the mu­si­cal com­pe­ti­tion.

Pri­ma­ry schools – Sat­ur­day, No­vem­ber 14

Or­der of ap­pear­ance:

* St Do­minic's RC Pri­ma­ry School, Mor­vant

* St Patrick's New Town Boys' RC School

* St Gabriel's Girls' RC School

* Barataria An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School

* Holy Fam­i­ly Prepara­to­ry School

* Bel­mont Boys' RC Pri­ma­ry School

* Mal­abar Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry

* St Pius Boys' RC School

* Mor­vant Epiphany An­gli­can School

* Tu­na­puna Boys' RC School

* Ari­ma Boys' RC School

* Sa­cred Heart Girls' RC School

* San Juan Boys/Girls Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School

* St Pe­ter's RC Pri­ma­ry School

* Paramin RC School

* San Fer­nan­do Boys' RC School

* Vance Riv­er RC School

* St Charles Tu­na­puna Girls' RC School

* Point Fortin RC School

* La Pas­to­ra Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School

Sec­ondary schools – Sun­day, No­vem­ber 15

Or­der of ap­pear­ance:

* St Mary's Col­lege and St Joseph's Con­vent, Port of Spain

* St George's Col­lege

* Prov­i­dence Girls' Catholic School

* Open Bible High School

* Trin­i­ty Col­lege Mo­ka

* Blan­chisseuse Sec­ondary School

* St Au­gus­tine Sec­ondary School

* Bel­mont Sec­ondary School

* Bish­op Anstey High School East (BATCE)

* Bish­op Anstey High School, Port of Spain, and Queen's Roy­al Col­lege

* St Charles High

* San Fer­nan­do Cen­tral Sec­ondary

* Holy Name Con­vent Point Fortin Sec­ondary

* St Joseph's Con­vent, St Joseph

* St Joseph's Con­vent, San Fer­nan­do

* Tu­na­puna Sec­ondary School

Trib­ute to the icons

Pri­ma­ry schools: Mor­vant Epiphany An­gli­can School, St Gabriel's Girls' RC School, Cedar Grove Pri­vate School and Point Fortin RC School.

Sec­ondary schools: St François Girls' Col­lege and Holy Name Con­vent, Port of Spain.