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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

King re-elected as TUCO president

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Incumbent TUCO president Ansley King, left, greets calypsonians Hamidullah Wahid, centre, and  Ras Kommanda (Steve Pascall) yesterday at the Queen’s Park Savannah VIP Lounge during TUCO’s executive elections.

Incumbent TUCO president Ansley King, left, greets calypsonians Hamidullah Wahid, centre, and Ras Kommanda (Steve Pascall) yesterday at the Queen’s Park Savannah VIP Lounge during TUCO’s executive elections.

NICOLE DRAYTON

Ains­ley King was re-elect­ed pres­i­dent of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) when the group held its ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

All po­si­tions at the ex­ec­u­tive lev­el were up for grabs, with the po­si­tion of pres­i­dent be­ing con­test­ed by King, Mor­ris Ed­wards and Rudolph Ot­t­ley.

Oth­er mem­bers of the new ex­ec­u­tive in­clude Ras Kom­man­da (Steve Pas­cal) (vice pres­i­dent); Judy Beni­court (trea­sur­er); Ron­dell Donowa (PRO); and De­von Seale (mar­ket­ing man­ag­er).

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia af­ter­wards, King said he was quite pleased with what he had ac­com­plished dur­ing a tenure that was heav­i­ly im­pact­ed by the pan­dem­ic.

“That was a mo­ment that I re­alised that what was bad­ly need­ed was that abil­i­ty to cre­ate some­thing that could keep mo­ti­va­tion flow­ing with the mem­bers, es­pe­cial­ly the se­niors,” King said.

“Be­cause how I look at life, if you have strengths on way, you have to make sure that the weak ar­eas are well worked on. So, I al­ways have this con­cern for the more un­for­tu­nate Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans in the or­gan­i­sa­tion, and the se­nior ca­lyp­so­ni­ans.”

King said he or­gan­ised ben­e­fit con­certs for the se­nior ca­lyp­so­ni­ans and pro­vid­ed lap­tops for chil­dren do­ing on­line class­es.

Shirlane Hen­drick­son, who ran un­op­posed as gen­er­al sec­re­tary, said she was hap­py with the turnout de­spite the rain.

“I’m still pleased to see that de­spite weath­er the ca­lyp­so­ni­ans are com­ing out as mem­bers to ex­er­cise their right to vote and that means a lot to us be­cause in this whole re­struc­tur­ing process, it means there­fore that they are part of the de­ci­sion-mak­ing process and we are here and we are thank­ful,” she said.

On­ly fi­nan­cial mem­bers were al­lowed to vote.


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