Carnival bacchanal intensified on Tuesday with the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organization (TUCO) finding itself facing more legal trouble in the run-up to this Sunday’s National Calypso Monarch Competition finals in Trinidad and Tobago.

This comes after the organization made a decision on Tuesday night to disqualify one of the finalists in the competition on the ground that she did not fit the nationality criterion to compete.

Now Lornette “Fyah Empress” Nedd Reid, who had qualified in eighth place for the finals, but was later disqualified given that she is a national of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, has threatened to file legal proceedings in the High Court should TUCO not reinstate her position as a qualifying participant by noon yesterday.

According to the Trinidad Express, the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation gave Nedd Reid up until midday on Tuesday to supply documents showing she was a national of Trinidad and Tobago and not a citizen of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as her fellow calypsonian Lynette “Lady Gypsy” Steele contended.

But, TUCO’s lawyer Marlon Moore wrote to Lady Gypsy’s lawyer, United National Congress senator Gerald Ramdeen, saying she had failed to produce the relevant documents. As such, the letter states, Lady Gypsy is now at number 15 in the competition.

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