Mc­Cartha Lin­da “Ca­lyp­so Rose” Sandy-Lewis was among eight icons ho­n­oured by the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly on Fri­day.

Mil­ford Road in Scar­bor­ough was of­fi­cial­ly re­named the Ca­lyp­so Rose Boule­vard in recog­ni­tion of Ca­lyp­so Rose’s con­tri­bu­tion to the ca­lyp­so art form and na­tion build­ing.

Sev­en oth­er fa­mous in­di­vid­u­als of the soil, the late Win­ston “Mighty Shad­ow” Bai­ley, for­mer T&T foot­ball coach Bertille St Clair, for­mer chief ad­min­is­tra­tor Al­lan Richards, late politi­cian James Big­gart, late an­thro­pol­o­gist Dr Ja­cob Del­worth El­der, and ed­u­ca­tors Aloy­sius More­an and Ed­na More­an (ed­u­ca­tion), both de­ceased, were al­so recog­nised with roads re­named in their ho­n­our.

Ca­lyp­so Rose, 84, start­ed her ac­cep­tance speech by thank­ing God for keep­ing her alive, not­ing that just a few weeks ago, she wrote a ca­lyp­so about To­ba­go Car­ni­val. She re­ceived a warm and cheer­ful re­sponse from the crowd gath­ered at the Es­planade in Scar­bor­ough for the event, as she sang a few lines from the new­ly penned ca­lyp­so.

She said, “I want to thank To­ba­go for hav­ing a street in my name that when I go home, the name will still be there. I want to thank the THA and all the peo­ple of To­ba­go for giv­ing me this won­der­ful time. And I want to thank you, Je­sus, be­cause you know I am stand­ing up­on the sol­id rock and the rock is Je­sus.”

As the Ca­lyp­so Rose Boule­vard was of­fi­cial­ly un­veiled, she ex­claimed, “That’s my boule­vard”

Among the oth­er name changes to the To­ba­go road in­fra­struc­ture were the JD El­der round­about, Mighty Shad­ow Boule­vard, Bertille St Clair round­about, Al­lan Richards round­about, More­an Dri­ve, and the James Big­gart Av­enue.