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Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Gov­ern­ment has plead­ed “no cen­sor­ship”, and state-owned Trinidad and To­ba­go Tele­vi­sion (TTT) has apol­o­gised to view­ers for the loss of au­dio dur­ing for­mer Ca­lyp­so Monarch Helon Fran­cis’s per­for­mance at Sun­day’s Di­manche Gras show—but Fran­cis is not con­vinced.

“It’s rather co­in­ci­den­tal that some­thing like that could have hap­pened while a song that speaks to the same thing is be­ing per­formed,” Fran­cis said yes­ter­day.