AN­GE­LO JE­DIDI­AH

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) is again deny­ing claims of po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence in this year’s Ca­lyp­so Monarch judg­ing, but one vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian, Hol­lis “Chalk­dust” Liv­er­pool, in­sists the re­al prob­lem lies with poor­ly trained judges.

Speak­ing at yes­ter­day’s draw for or­der of ap­pear­ance in the Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch fi­nal at Sun­day’s Di­manche gras show, TU­CO pres­i­dent Ains­ley King dis­tanced the or­gan­i­sa­tion from such claims, not­ing that reign­ing Ca­lyp­so Monarch Helon Fran­cis won last year with what he deemed as “po­lit­i­cal com­men­tary” – ti­tled ‘To Whom it May Be.’