Yvonne Webb

A Cur­few Ca­lyp­so Monarch Com­pe­ti­tion is to be held in San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day, in ob­ser­vance of Ca­lyp­so His­to­ry Month-Oc­to­ber. Chair­man of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) South/Cen­tral Zone, Ras Kom­man­da, said it was the third year the or­gan­i­sa­tion was host­ing the com­pe­ti­tion. How­ev­er, he said, it had cho­sen to give this year's event a cur­few twist, in light of the state of emer­gency and the 11 pm to 4 am cur­few. He said the show would start at 4 pm at the San Fer­nan­do City Au­di­to­ri­um and is ex­pect­ed to end prompt­ly at 8 pm. "So peo­ple have enough time to come en­joy the show and reach home be­fore the cur­few goes in­to ef­fect," Kom­man­da said.

Nine fi­nal­ists and one re­serve would com­pete for cash prizes. First place win­ner will re­ceive $30,000. Prizes of $15,000, $10,000 and $7,000 will be award­ed to the sec­ond, third and fourth place win­ners re­spec­tive­ly. Con­tes­tants plac­ing fifth to ninth will each re­ceive $5,000. The con­tes­tants are Vic­to­ria Coop­er, Sekon Alves, Rose­mary Mitchell, Tamei­ka Dar­ius, Vic­tor Mc Don­ald, Os­ei Ato, Joanne Fos­ter, Hezeki­ah Joseph and Selvon Noel. Fritz Tay­lor is the re­serve. Kom­man­da said each con­tes­tant would per­form two songs. He al­so not­ed that the same spe­cial­ist sys­tem of judg­ing, as ob­tained dur­ing the Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch Com­pe­ti­tion, will be ap­plied in com­pe­ti­tion, where judges will ad­ju­di­cate on lyrics, mu­sic and pre­sen­ta­tion.