Calypso Rose among Tobago icons honoured by the THA

Mc­Cartha Lin­da “Ca­lyp­so Rose” Sandy-Lewis was among eight icons in To­ba­go ho­n­oured by the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly on Fri­day. Mil­ford Road in Scar­bor­ough was of­fi­cial­ly re­named the Ca­lyp­so Rose Boule­vard.

The oth­er sev­en who were ho­n­oured in­clud­ed 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 of whom are now de­ceased.

At 84, Ca­lyp­so Rose start­ed her ac­cep­tance speech by thank­ing God for keep­ing her alive and said she a few weeks ago she wrote a ca­lyp­so about To­ba­go car­ni­val. She re­ceived a warm and cheer­ful re­sponse from the crowd which gath­ered at the Es­planade in Scar­bor­ough for the event.

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 changes to To­ba­go’s land­scape in­clude the JD El­der round­about, Mighty Shad­ow Boule­vard, Bertille St Clair round­about, Al­lan Richards round­about, More­an Dri­ve, and the James Big­gart Av­enue.