Controversy has again erupted following Sunday’s Soca Royale at Bushy Park, with Party Monarch runner-up Ricardo Li’l Rick Reid calling for a review of the judging criteria and third-placed Edwin Yearwood suggesting that competing artistes engage in some introspection.
Last year Sweet Soca winner TC was forced to abandon involvement in a sing-off with Blood and had to be escorted home by security officials after fans protested the results of the competition.
Yesterday Reid gave his views in an interview with the DAILY NATION in which he called for more clearly defined criteria for the competition, a raise in prize monies, and for the judges to go to the Crop Over fetes and see which songs were moving the people.
“Some of the judges don’t even go to the parties to see what is happening,” said Reid. “Some on Sunday were hearing these songs for the first time. You can’t judge party songs like Pic-O-De-Crop.”
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