Nigel Teles­ford

Grena­di­an So­ca Monarch and Peo­ple’s Choice win­ner Mud­dy (Alex Cuffie) paid a cour­tesy call on Min­is­ter of En­er­gy Roodal Mooni­lal this week at his of­fice in Tow­er C, In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Cen­tre, Wright­son Road.

Dur­ing the vis­it, Mud­dy pre­sent­ed Min­is­ter Mooni­lal with a gift bag pre­pared by the Prime Min­is­ter’s Of­fice of Grena­da. The to­ken in­clud­ed a col­lec­tion of Grena­di­an spices, a pic­to­r­i­al jour­ney through Grena­di­an her­itage, sam­ples of gua­va jel­ly and nut­meg jam, and a spe­cial­ly made Mud­dy-brand­ed back­pack, which the artiste au­to­graphed dur­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion.

Mud­dy spoke warm­ly of his re­cent stay and per­for­mances in Trinidad, while Min­is­ter Mooni­lal ex­pressed his per­son­al af­fec­tion for Grena­da. He al­so ref­er­enced his close friend­ship with Grena­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Dick­on Mitchell and wished Mud­dy “all the best for the 2026 Trinidad Car­ni­val sea­son.”

Fol­low­ing the meet­ing, Mud­dy told Guardian Me­dia he was proud to rep­re­sent his home­land and de­light­ed by the pos­i­tive re­cep­tion his song Pay­roll has re­ceived in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

“It’s a great ho­n­our and plea­sure for me to rep­re­sent my coun­try,” he said. “The peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go have wel­comed me with open arms and are show­ing a lot of love for Pay­roll and for my com­rades here for the sea­son as well.

“T&T and Grena­da have al­ways shared strong re­la­tions, with many fam­i­lies re­lo­cat­ing be­tween our is­lands over time, so we are like fam­i­ly. With Bla­ka Dan as the reign­ing So­ca Cham­pi­on here, it feels like an ex­ten­sion of that fam­i­ly. We al­so look for­ward to see­ing many Tri­nis back in Grena­da for Spice Mas 2026.”

Mud­dy has been in Trinidad since the first week of Jan­u­ary and is sched­uled to per­form to­mor­row evening at A Team Events’ A Class VIP Cool­er Ex­pe­ri­ence. The event, fea­tur­ing sev­er­al top so­ca acts backed by the A Team Band, takes place at the Cipri­ani Labour Col­lege Grounds in Val­sayn from 5 pm to mid­night.