Kamla: Grand Stand to be renamed in Sparrow’s honour

Prime Min­is­ters Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Mia Mot­t­ley have laud­ed the Mighty Spar­row for his con­tri­bu­tions to Caribbean cul­ture, not­ing that his tal­ent as a sto­ry­teller went be­yond that of an or­di­nary en­ter­tain­er and was clos­er to that of a his­to­ri­an, doc­u­ment­ing the evo­lu­tion of Caribbean peo­ple and so­ci­eties across decades.

To prop­er­ly ho­n­our his lega­cy, Per­sad-Bisses­sar has an­nounced that the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah’s Grand Stand will be for­mal­ly re­named to ho­n­our the late cul­tur­al leg­end.

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Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­vealed the name change dur­ing her trib­ute at his fu­ner­al at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, not­ing that the ho­n­our was a fit­ting trib­ute to a man who spent most of his life pi­o­neer­ing ca­lyp­so and so­ca as art­forms.