Sprangalang still in hospital

Natasha “Sexy Suzie” Nurse was livid yesterday (Tuesday) with some of her husband Sprangalang’s (Dennis Hall's) visitors.

She spoke of a fellow entertainer (name withheld) who went to visit Sprangalang at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Centre, Mt Hope, asking him if he remembered various people they both knew, then telling him all who had died, had strokes or been very ill.

She said: “Even Sprangalang was upset. So that is why we are trying to avoid those kinds of visitors, and limit his visitors.”

Sprangalang has multiple ailments, which are being treated one at a time Nurse said.

Nurse also said one of the big problems that has stressed her husband, eventually leading to his illness, is the unpaid gratuity owed to him from when he was adviser to Winston “Gypsy” Peters, culture minister under the People’s Partnership government, some six years ago.

She said it was no small figure, but in the absence of that money to assist with his medical expenses now, two benefit concerts will be held, the first on July 11, at Palms Club in San Fernando, and the other on July 16, at Kaiso Blues Café in Port of Spain.

The kaiso and comedy concerts will feature artistes including Scrunter (Owen Reyes Johnson), Johnny King, Cro Cro (Weston Rawlins), Aloes (Michael Osouna), Karen Eccles, Trini (Robert Elias), Mr Shak (Selvon Noel), Sharlan Bailey, Twiggy (Ann Marie Parks Kojo), Spicey (Tammico Moore), calypsonian Sexy Suzie herself, and comedians Damian Melville, Tommy Joseph and Errol Fabien.

Nurse said: “Imagine, Sprang wants to come to the show, asking me if he has to MC and all that type of stupidness. I told him he has to stay in the hospital and get better and we will work for him.”

She added that if people can’t come to the shows they can still contribute to the cause.

No date has been given for Sprangalang’s departure from the hospital. Nurse said every day new things are being discovered.

“But Sprangalang has the very best doctors and nurses working with him and I must thank Joan Yuille-Williams (former culture minister) who is there every day, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh and hospital director Davlin Thomas for that,” Nurse said.