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Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to ed­u­cate them­selves on the his­to­ry of ca­lyp­so.

She made the com­ment yes­ter­day as she ad­dressed the con­tin­u­ing con­tro­ver­sy over the au­dio trou­ble which ca­lyp­son­ian Helon Fran­cis en­coun­tered dur­ing the Ca­lyp­so Monarch fi­nal on Sun­day and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s re­sponse to pub­lic crit­i­cism of TTT over the sit­u­a­tion.

Most of Fran­cis’s ren­di­tion of Don’t For­get was not heard on the sta­tion due to au­dio prob­lems. TTT apol­o­gised to lis­ten­ers to the show, say­ing the sit­u­a­tion was due to tech­ni­cal is­sues. How­ev­er, Fran­cis is un­con­vinced about what hap­pened to him, with the pub­lic al­so sug­gest­ing it was cen­sor­ship sanc­tioned by the Gov­ern­ment, which Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Nicholas Mor­ris has de­nied.