Michelle Loubon

Once more, Pe­ters pledged his al­le­giance to the art form and the fra­ter­ni­ty which is more than 100 years old. "The fra­ter­ni­ty is an age­ing one. We have to put things in place to steel our­selves. Re­gard­less of what I do, ca­lyp­so is from whence I came. In or­der for me to do that, you must first help your­selves."

Trin­ba­go Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion pres­i­dent Lu­ta­lo Masim­ba de­scribed Con­queror as "a war­rior in song who touched spir­its and hearts." Slip­ping in­to rap­so mode, he said: "When we as­sem­ble/we cel­e­brate the pow­er/that was Leroy Paul."

Mourn­ers' list

Among those who gath­ered to pay trib­ute to Paul were his loved ones, in­clud­ing his wife, Dol­ly, chil­dren Rhea, Ava, Miguel, Suzzette, An­tho­ny and Karen. Al­so among those who mourned Paul were his pas­tor An­tho­ny Quim­by and Bish­op Garvin Gar­raway who de­liv­ered the homi­ly, call­ing on the cit­i­zen­ry to re­spect the cul­ture and re­turn to tra­di­tion­al fam­i­ly val­ues.