Ains­ley King was re-elect­ed pres­i­dent of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) when the group held its ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

All po­si­tions at the ex­ec­u­tive lev­el were up for grabs, with the po­si­tion of pres­i­dent be­ing con­test­ed by King, Mor­ris Ed­wards and Rudolph Ot­t­ley.

Oth­er mem­bers of the new ex­ec­u­tive in­clude Ras Kom­man­da (Steve Pas­cal) (vice pres­i­dent); Judy Beni­court (trea­sur­er); Ron­dell Donowa (PRO); and De­von Seale (mar­ket­ing man­ag­er).

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia af­ter­wards, King said he was quite pleased with what he had ac­com­plished dur­ing a tenure that was heav­i­ly im­pact­ed by the pan­dem­ic.

“That was a mo­ment that I re­alised that what was bad­ly need­ed was that abil­i­ty to cre­ate some­thing that could keep mo­ti­va­tion flow­ing with the mem­bers, es­pe­cial­ly the se­niors,” King said.

“Be­cause how I look at life, if you have strengths on way, you have to make sure that the weak ar­eas are well worked on. So, I al­ways have this con­cern for the more un­for­tu­nate Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans in the or­gan­i­sa­tion, and the se­nior ca­lyp­so­ni­ans.”

King said he or­gan­ised ben­e­fit con­certs for the se­nior ca­lyp­so­ni­ans and pro­vid­ed lap­tops for chil­dren do­ing on­line class­es.

Shirlane Hen­drick­son, who ran un­op­posed as gen­er­al sec­re­tary, said she was hap­py with the turnout de­spite the rain.

“I’m still pleased to see that de­spite weath­er the ca­lyp­so­ni­ans are com­ing out as mem­bers to ex­er­cise their right to vote and that means a lot to us be­cause in this whole re­struc­tur­ing process, it means there­fore that they are part of the de­ci­sion-mak­ing process and we are here and we are thank­ful,” she said.

On­ly fi­nan­cial mem­bers were al­lowed to vote.