“DONE WID DAT!”An upset and disappointed Kid Site has called it quits with the Crop-Over Festival.Site, real name David Piggott, has charged that favouritism has crept into the calypso competition.Last Friday, for the third consecutive year, the three-time calypso monarch was eliminated from the Banks/Lime Pic-O-De-Crop Finals.“It is no longer a competition or anything about development. I see the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) moving in a direction that they don’t care anything about development at all,” Site told the DAILY NATION yesterday.“If I was in the big tent, I would have gone through to the Finals and overcome some of the same people that gone through in front of me.“But having overpowered them and performed superior to them on the night, I still expected to go through to the Finals. I am very disappointed,” he added.Site, a veteran entertainer of 27 years in show business – 22 of which he has spent in the calypso arena – said he had now lost the encouragement and zeal to participate in Crop-Over activities.“I sing calypso with great humour and try to perform it. It is no longer a competition anymore, and therefore I don’t enjoy it anymore. It makes no sense putting in your money anymore. I resolved before the half-time at the Semi-finals Friday night that I was finished with this.“I know from playing this game that once you are in a tent with a big following on the judging night . . . you can make it into the Finals,” he said.Kid Site won the calypso monarch crown in 1991, 2004, 2005 and 2006, and has been selected for the Pic-O-De-Crop Semi-finals 18 times and the Finals 17 times.He has also declared he won’t be standing in as a reserve for Friday night’s Finals as announced by the NCF.“I am not accepting any reserve from the NCF. They can take it and give it to somebody else,” he said.This year, Site, who sang in the Bachannal Time Tent, sang Change The Name and I Gun Get On Bad.When contacted, NCF’s corporate communications specialist Wayne Simmons said: “The competition is open to all persons and when they want to enter, they would enter and when they want to withdraw, they would withdraw.”
