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Two days after copping the National Junior Calypso Monarch crown, eight-year-old Xhaiden Darius added to his trophy cabinet when he clinched the title in the primary schools category of the 2025 Schools' Intellectual National Carnival Chutney Soca Monarch competition at the NCIC Nagar car park, Chaguanas on February 26.
Singing his composition a Melody of Chutney, the Savonetta Primary School student topped the competition with 268 points. In the process, Darius displaced 2024 champion Katelin Sultan who placed second with her song Say Ah Prayer For My Country. Sultan amassed 242 points.
In third place was Lower Morvant Government's Celebrit-T Charles, who racked up 218 points with her song I Was Born For Chutney. St Helena Presbyterian's Danielle Abraham (194 points) and Lower Morvant's Jah'Majesty Charles (185 points) rounded off the top five in the primary schools category.
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