By Shereita Grizzle— The Mighty Sparrow— Slinger Francisco, better known as the Mighty Sparrow, is still awaiting financial assistance from Trinidad and Tobago for his medical bills. According to a news report from the country’s Guardian newspaper, president of the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU), Ancel Roget, said Sparrow did not get the financial assistance promised to him a year ago. Roget, speaking at an OWTU press conference at the Paramount headquarters recently, expressed disappointment at the failure of the State to fulfil its promise to Sparrow, the man who helped put Trinidad and Tobago on the map with his calypso music. He said Sparrow was hospitalised for three months in the United States in September 2013, after suffering a stroke. In February, during a function in Siparia, promises were made that the State would foot his … Read entire article »

NEW YORK— The NY-based publication has named calypsonian Slinger Francisco, popularly known as The Mighty Sparrow, as its “Person of the Year.” “Any person, in any part of the world, regardless to sex, age and vocation, can emulate the virtues The Mighty Sparrow exemplified during 2014,” said Herman Hall, the Grenadian-born editor, publisher and founder of the Brooklyn, New York-based Everybody’s magazine. “For those reasons, we unabashedly proclaim our readers’ selection of The Mighty Sparrow as the ‘2014 Person of the Year’,” he added. Hall said Sparrow was “overwhelmingly” selected by its readers and social media friends from among “many regional leaders and people of Caribbean heritage in the Diaspora”. He said they included Tiffany Ford, of St. Lucian-Grenadian heritage, elected into municipal government in Toronto, Canada; Rodneyse Bichotte, the first Haitian-American elected to the … Read entire article »