Con­tro­ver­sial ca­lyp­son­ian Cro Cro (We­st­on Rawl­ins) has failed to make in­to the se­mi-fi­nals of this year’s Ca­lyp­so Monarch com­pe­ti­tion.

The four-time monarch was no­tably miss­ing from the list of 40-semi­fi­nal­ists re­leased yes­ter­day the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) who will com­pete in Ca­lyp­so Fi­es­ta at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do, next Sat­ur­day.

Rawl­ins, a co-or­di­na­tor with the state-run Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), was re­cent­ly sus­pend­ed from the pro­gramme af­ter a short video clip of him us­ing ob­scene lan­guage to­wards a fel­low mo­torist went was wide­ly cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia.

Sev­er­al for­mer Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Mon­archs have made it to the next round of the com­pe­ti­tion in­clud­ing: Chalk­dust (Hol­lis Liv­er­pool), De­von Seale, Du­ane O’Con­nor, Karene As­che, Kurt Allen, Chucky (Rod­er­ick Gor­don) and Sug­ar Aloes (Michael Os­ouna).

Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) chair­man Gyp­sy (Win­ston Pe­ters), who won the ti­tle in 1997, is al­so among the 40 chal­lengers vy­ing for the chance com­pete against reign­ing monarch Helon Fran­cis.

This will be the first year that the fi­nals of the an­nu­al com­pe­ti­tion will be held out­side of the Di­manche Gras show on Car­ni­val Sun­day night. In­stead, it will be TU­CO’s Kaiso­ra­ma on Ter­rif­ic Thurs­day at the Grand Stand, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

TU­CO al­so an­nounced the 15 fi­nal­ists in the Na­tion­al Ju­nior Ca­lyp­so Monarch fi­nals to be held the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah next Mon­day. The reign­ing monarch is O’Con­nor’s son, Du­ane Ta’zyar O’Con­nor.

Ca­lyp­so Monarch se­mi-fi­nal­ists:

1. Ad­de­lon “Ban­jela” Brave­boy- Bring It Back

2. Alana Sin­nette-Khan - Pres­sure Does Buss Pipe

3. Alex “To­ba­go Chalkie” Gift - Trav­el Ad­vi­so­ry

4. Ali­cia Richards - Is­re­al’s Con­cern

5. Al­li­son “War­rior Em­press” Bernard - The You In You

6. An­tho­ny “All­rounder” Hen­drick­son - Where Are The Foot­prints

7. Bri­an Lon­don - Who To Call

8. Dar­wren “Pharoah” Greenidge - For­mu­la

9. De­von Seale - Two Face

10. Dex­ter “The Stinger” Par­sons - Span­ish Food

11. Du­ane O’Con­nor - Re­spect

12. Er­phaan Alves - I Am

13. Heather Mac­In­tosh - Take Over

14. Hol­lis “Chalk­dust” Liv­er­pool - They Put Meh So

15. Je­lanie Wells - Ah Tip­ping

16. Jer­risha Dun­can-Reg­is - Big Fat Ze­ro

17. Joanne “Ti­gress” Row­ley - Who Feels It Knows It

18. Karen Ec­cles Thomas - She Still Have To Wait

19. Karene As­che - Lo­co and Bro­co

20. Ker­ine “Tiny” Williams-Fi­garo - Slip­ping Away

21. Kurt “The Last Bad John of Ca­lyp­so” Allen - Wha Yuh Say?

22. Kyle “KC” Cowie - The Big­ger Pic­ture

23. Les­ley Ann El­lis -Yuh Wan­na Fight

24. Maria Bho­la - False Alarm

25. Mark East­man - Ca­lyp­so Killers

26. Michael “Sug­ar Aloes’ Os­ouna - Su­per G

27. Natasha “Sexy Suzie” Nurse - The Wrong Name

28. Robert “Mighty Tri­ni” Elias - 101 Per­cent

29. Rod­er­ick “Chucky” Gor­don - El Muro (The Wall)

30. Roger “Body­guard” Mo­hammed - Bare­foot

31. Ronal­do Lon­don - Man’s Imag­i­na­tion

32. Selvon “Mis­tah Shak” Noel - J’ou­vert Demons

33. Shel­don “Shel­don Nugget” Bullen - Cel­e­brate Them

34. Shel­don Reid - Wey Meh Trinidad

35. Stacey Sobers - Make T&T Great Again

36. Tami­ka Dar­ius - Oil Cyah Spoil

37. Tam­mi­co “Spicey” Moore - De Crown

38. Ter­ri Lyons - Woman

39. Vic­to­ria “Queen Vic­to­ria” Coop­er-Rahim -Sus­pect Band

40. Win­ston “Gyp­sy” Pe­ters -When Ele­phants Fight

Re­serves

1. Shirlane Hen­drick­son - Post and Po­si­tion

2. My­ron “In­cred­i­ble My­ron B” Bruce - The Ras­ta In Ras­ta City

TU­CO/First Cit­i­zens Na­tion­al Ju­nior Monarch fi­nal­ists:

1. A’janae King-Fras­er - St Fran­cois Girls’ Col­lege - More Time

2. Adana Dar­d­aine - San­gre Grande Ed­u­ca­tion­al In­sti­tute - Is De Mu­sic

3. An­nalise Em­manuel - St Joseph Covent, St Joseph - Don’t Be A Stranger

4. Bethany Light­bourne - Bish­op Anstey High School East - Ca­lyp­so Ris­ing

5. Caleb Hinds - St Bene­dict’s Col­lege - Our Na­tion’s Chil­dren

6. Cindy-Ann Big­ford - Holy Faith Covent, Pe­nal - Help Our Chil­dren

7. Faith Hay­wood - Holy Name Con­vent - Your Broth­ers Keep­er

8. Jalan Maugh­an -St Patrick’s New­town Boys - God’s Army

9. Kai-An­tho­ny Salazar - St Michael’s An­gli­can - Leh We Cel­e­brate

10. Ker­ston Mil­lar - Bish­op’s High Schoool - More Love, Less Blood

11. Kurlise Ben­tham - Bish­op’s Cen­te­nary Col­lege - Two Heads

12. N’Janela Dun­can-Reg­is - Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, POS and En­vi­rons - Slave To The Gun

13. Nao­mi Sin­nette - Bish­op’s Cen­te­nary Col­lege - The Truth About Mon­ey

14. Ri­val­do Lon­don - Pleas­antville Sec­ondary - My Pur­pose

15.Tsa­hai Corbin - Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies - Fa­thers Of The Na­tion