Terri Lyons has been crowned this year’s Calypso Monarch

by Derek Achong

Lyons se­cured her sec­ond ti­tle, since her first win in 2020, at the end of the Di­manche Gras show at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, ear­ly this morn­ing.

She was the clear favourite on the night with her spir­i­tu­al song "Bless­ings" re­ceiv­ing a lengthy stand­ing ova­tion from both the Grand and North Stands, the lat­ter of which re­opened for the com­pe­ti­tion the first time since 2012.

She re­ceived $1 mil­lion and a Suzu­ki Vi­tara, cour­tesy Lifestyle Mo­tors.

While Lyons' vic­to­ry was well re­ceived by the large-than-av­er­age au­di­ence, the oth­er re­sults in the Ca­lyp­so Monarch com­pe­ti­tion drew au­di­ble jeers as many in the au­di­ence were not sat­is­fied with the plac­ing of the oth­er con­tes­tants.

"They cheat," one pa­tron shout­ed.

"They (the judges) do­ing it again," an­oth­er said.

How­ev­er, their boos quick­ly turned in­to cheers as Lyons was an­nounced as the even­tu­al win­ner.

In sec­ond place was this year's Na­tion­al Ac­tion Cul­tur­al Com­mit­tee Young King Ri­val­do Lon­don, who sang "Wa­ter Thick­er".

Nine time Chut­ney So­ca Monarch Sam­raj "Rik­ki Jai" Jaimun­gal placed third with "Doh Spoil Meh Name".

Crowd favourite Karene As­che placed fifth with her fiery po­lit­i­cal com­men­tary "No­body Wins Un­til".

Last year's win­ner Helon Fran­cis, who was al­so a crowd favourite, placed sixth with "Doh For­get".

While there were no is­sues with his per­for­mance at the venue, there was a re­port­ed drop in au­dio in the live broad­cast of his per­for­mance.

The tech­ni­cal is­sue sparked con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries on so­cial me­dia, with some users sug­gest­ing that he was sab­o­taged for his po­lit­i­cal com­men­tary.

Re­sults

1. Ter­ri Lyons - Bless­ings - 263

2. Ri­val­do Lon­don - Wa­ter Thick­er - 245

3. Rik­ki Jai - Doh Spoil Meh Name - 241

4. Yung Bred­da - The Mes­sen­ger - 240

5. Karene As­che - No­body Wins Unit - 239

6. Helon Fran­cis - Doh For­get - 237

7. Nicole Thomas-Clarke - Sac­ri­fice - 236

8. Ta'Zyah O'Con­nor - Cast Them Away - 235

9. Giselle "GG" Fras­er - No Vil­lage Can't - 230

10. Muham­mad Muwak­il - Ca­lyp­so - 228

11. Kerice Pas­call - No Con­science - 225

12. Roslyn­Hayes -Ca­lyp­so Call­ing Me - 212