Scores of patrons braved inclement weather on New Year's Day to attend the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians' Organisation's (Tuco) launch of Carnival 2016 and Artistes Welfare Fundraiser in the foyer at the National Carnival Commission (NCC), Grand Stand, Queen's Park Savannah.
Mayaro the Band, Dil-E-Nadan, reigning Calypso Monarch Roderick "Chucky" Gordon, Juby Cox, and Superblue (Austin Lyons) were among the artistes who entertained at the event which took the form of a cooler fete.
Tuco president Lutalo "Brother Resistance" Masimba, said the group had been working on a welfare fund for calypsonians for a number of years.
"Recently, we put it in a different kind of gear in the sense that we have established the Tuco Foundation which is a legal entity to take charge of the welfare and investment on behalf of the organisation. We are on the verge of completing the Tuco medical plan which will take care of the medical requirement of our members, so we expect that with regards to our fund-raising that would be directed towards bringing our medical plan on stream," he told the Sunday Guardian.