Art critic Al Creighton has described National Communication Network’s ban on the finalists in this year calypso competition as a “…trivial and unnecessary act that achieves nothing…” which blemishes the government’s record and did “what it sought to undo”.
However, he said, there is need to address the fall-off in artistic skills and popularity of the genre of music as there are already problems with the Guyanese calypso that is supposed to be at the core of