Glasgow: TUCO should maintain Sparrow, Kitchener statues without more State funding

Pro­mot­er Randy Glas­gow is call­ing on the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) to take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for main­tain­ing stat­ues ho­n­our­ing ca­lyp­so leg­ends, say­ing there is no rea­son to seek more Gov­ern­ment mon­ey when the art form al­ready re­ceives mil­lions in an­nu­al fund­ing.

His call fol­lows a vol­un­teer ef­fort on Sat­ur­day morn­ing to pow­er-wash the stat­ue of the Mighty Spar­row and clean its sur­round­ings.

Glas­gow said main­tain­ing the stat­ues of Spar­row and Lord Kitch­en­er should be­come part of TU­CO’s re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, rather than de­pend­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to pay for every cleanup.