Cro Cro gets his prizes

WESTON Rawlins, better known as Cro Cro, received his prizes after copping the People’s Choice title for his performance at the 2018 Calypso Fiesta at Skinner Park, San Fernando, last month. This took place at the NLCB Suite in the Queen’s Park Oval yesterday. Cro Cro’s prizes included $10,000 from FCL Financial Ltd, and a trip to any one of 100-plus Jet Blue destinations.

A happy Cro Cro said he had not yet decided where he wants to go but intends to offset expenses from his Icons Calypso Tent with his money prize. Another sponsor of the People’s Choice Calypsonian produced by two-year-old Calypso Fiesta Ltd, (TSTT, presented a mobile phone to Dern Pierre, who texted the most votes on the day.

Cro Cro joked: “Right now I want a phone!” but when asked why he didn’t TSTT for one, he said: “I don’t like to beg.” On Cro Cro’s song Belated, which is viewed as “anti-PNM,”, the Mighty Midget as he is called, smiled but said none of the politicians named in the song has reached out to him about his singing it until two days ago.

He said Fitzgerald Hinds, Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General, called him, but his phone went dead. When it was recharged he discovered Hinds had left a message saying he had called a few more times and asking him to call back, but Cro Cro didn’t oblige. He performed the song at the prize giving.

Earlier, Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) president Lutalo Masimba thanked all the sponsors, including the National Lotteries Control Board, saying: “We are charting a different way forward, and with their support it builds our confidence.”