Calypso Monarch of TT, not World

Did something happen in the High Court earlier this week? One of the contestants earlier this week was removed by TUCO because she was not a citizen of TT .

The High Court ruled that having participated in the semi-finals and having been chosen for the finals, she was entitled to be a finalist. Basic common sense.

One recalls that Lord Nelson from Tobago but a citizen of the US was debarred from performing many years ago and thus made the ever popular Foreigner. It is thus strange that TUCO (Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation) has in its current rule book that only citizens of TT are allowed to participate in the Calypso Monarch competition.

And on Dimanche Gras night 2017, Chalkdust is announced and introduced as the Calypso Monarch of the World. It should be, correctly, Calypso Monarch of TT .

I wonder?

Philip Ayoung-Chee via email