Joshua Re­grel­lo, the son of San Fer­nan­do May­or Ju­nia Re­grel­lo, has tak­en of­fence to his fa­ther la­belling him as “lazy”, chang­ing his Twit­ter name to "Lazy Boy."

Joshua, the young cap­tain of San Fer­nan­do’s Skif­fle Steel Or­ches­tra, who has been mak­ing waves on so­cial me­dia with his melo­di­ous adap­ta­tion of theme songs and lo­cal mu­sic, al­so retweet­ed a pho­to of the Trinidad Guardian ar­ti­cle in which his fa­ther dubbed him as lazy.

The orig­i­nal tweet by ‘sub ju­dice 263 T-98’ on Wednes­day showed the ti­tle of the ar­ti­cle, “Re­grel­lo: My son is not on cor­po­ra­tion’s pay­roll” and the cap­tion

“Y’all, Ju­nior Re­grel­lo pelt his son un­der the bus oui”. Joshua retweet­ed with the cap­tion, ‘It re­al­ly be your own” with a gri­mac­ing emo­ji. Up to this morn­ing, the post was retweet­ed 93 times with 517 likes.

It has brought much ridicule. “It’s one thing to call your son lazy, it’s an­oth­er thing to have it in print,” one per­son com­ment­ed.

An­oth­er said, “Dawg, I read it in his voice and I am dy­ing here” with a laugh­ter and cry­ing emo­ji to bol­ster her ex­pres­sion. Joshua re­spond­ed, “He stayed in char­ac­ter for the me­dia.”

Re­grel­lo’s lazy com­ment was made dur­ing an in­ter­view with the me­dia on Tues­day fol­low­ing claims by Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal that close rel­a­tives of sit­ting mem­bers of the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion were be­ing paid salaries even though they were hard­ly ever seen at work. Speak­ing at the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress' pub­lic meet­ing in Mara­bel­la last Mon­day, Mooni­lal claimed there were two uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents on the Cor­po­ra­tion’s pay­roll. But Re­grel­lo said that while he had a son at­tend­ing uni­ver­si­ty, he was nev­er em­ployed by the Cor­po­ra­tion.

“I have one son in uni­ver­si­ty and he has nev­er worked in his life. He is a pan play­er and that is what he does. He does not work, he too lazy. He not work­ing any­where. Coun­cil­lor Soogrim has a daugh­ter in uni­ver­si­ty—she is not work­ing here. My son in uni­ver­si­ty took a year off and on­ly start­ed back last month. He has nev­er worked here,” Re­grel­lo said.

As a mu­si­cian, Joshua plays at sev­er­al gigs, in­clud­ing the Cor­po­ra­tion’s cer­e­mo­ny last Oc­to­ber to present JT Al­lum and Co Ltd with the keys to the city.