T&T So­ca Monarch lovers can look for­ward to new and ex­cit­ing things next year. Chair­man of the Caribbean Pres­tige Foun­da­tion (CPF) for the per­form­ing arts William Munro said this in a Sun­day Guardian in­ter­view on Fri­day. CPF signed a deal with Guardian Me­dia Ltd on No­vem­ber 26 and Munro ex­pects high vis­i­bil­i­ty. Present for the sign­ing was Tony Lee, ex­ec­u­tive pres­i­dent of the Foun­da­tion.

"It's like a part­ner­ship so we ex­pect a lot com­ing from the group," Munro said.

Fans can al­so fol­low the com­peti­tors on tele­vi­sion lead­ing up to the fi­nal as there will be a re­al­i­ty show on CNC3 with the artistes. Next year will be the So­ca Monarch's last year as a teen (in its 19th year) and things will get more ex­cit­ing, the or­gan­is­ers as­sured. There would be new things. "We are send­ing out the teenag­er with a blaze of glo­ry. "That's why we have a slo­gan, 'En­er­gy in the City.' "We are pay­ing groups to come and jump and who shows the most amount of en­er­gy in jump­ing, the first prize is $15,000," he ex­plained.

Munro said there would be a lot of for­eign press and dig­ni­taries at­tend­ing the af­fair. "So­ca Monarch is a house­hold name not on­ly in T&T but to the world. Every­body knows World Cup, every­body knows the Olympics, every­body knows T&T So­ca Monarch. It's still grow­ing and will bring ben­e­fits and monies to T&T." He said he was ex­cit­ed. Munro said CPF's op­er­a­tions man­ag­er Ka­reena Sookoo was very good and ver­sa­tile and con­tributed a lot to the or­gan­i­sa­tion.