{"id":10804,"date":"2023-06-12T06:39:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T10:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2023-06-12T06:39:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T10:39:24","slug":"reunion-primary-and-sir-ira-simmons-secondary-claim-the-schools-calypso-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/reunion-primary-and-sir-ira-simmons-secondary-claim-the-schools-calypso-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunion Primary and Sir Ira Simmons Secondary Claim the Schools Calypso Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

After an exciting day of riveting performances by 16 primary and secondary schools, Calypsonians; Danrel, from Reunion Primary and Yandi J from Sir Ira Simmons Secondary have won the 2023 National Schools Calypso Crown.\u00a0 Danrel gave a captivating performance of his calypso, entitled \u201cChildren in Crisis\u201d and Yandi J as Father Time singing \u201cPassage of Time\u201d had the crowd singing along to their songs. All the calypsonians delivered songs focusing on some of society\u2019s gravest issues including violence, social media and the future of the youth. The competition was divided into the Infant\/Primary and Secondary Schools Division. The winners for each division are:<\/p>\n

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Rank<\/strong><\/th>\nInfant\/Primary<\/strong><\/th>\nSecondary<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Winner<\/strong><\/td>\nReunion Primary<\/td>\nSir Ira Simmons Secondary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1st<\/sup> Runner- Up<\/strong><\/td>\nAve Maria Girls Primary<\/td>\nCastries Comprehensive Secondary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2nd<\/sup> Runner- Up<\/strong><\/td>\nPiaye Combined<\/td>\nMicoud Secondary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3rd<\/sup> Runner- Up<\/strong><\/td>\nMongouge Combined<\/td>\nSt. Mary\u2019s College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n

This year\u2019s competition was held at the Vigie Sports Complex, after having outgrown its traditional home, the National Cultural Centre. The winners and qualifying schools in this year\u2019s competition received several prizes from the sponsors including laptops, head phones, grocery and dinner vouchers and experiences like Splash Island Water Park.<\/p>\n

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Danrel – Reunion Primary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sponsors for the 2023 National Schools Calypso Competition include title sponsor, National Lotteries Authority, platinum sponsor, Piton Malt\/Crystal Clear, gold sponsors, Courts Ready Cash, Radio Caribbean International, and Flow. Other sponsors include The Wave, Saint Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC), First Citizens Investment Services, KFC, Rubis, Splash Island Water Park, Trim Riding Stables, Massy Stores, and The Right Angle. To stay informed on updates on Junior Carnival and information on all other carnival events, go to www.carnivalsaintlucia.com or follow @juniorcarnivalsaintlucia and @carnivalsaintlucia for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After an exciting day of riveting performances by 16 primary and secondary schools, Calypsonians; Danrel, from Reunion Primary and Yandi J from Sir Ira Simmons Secondary have won the 2023 National Schools Calypso Crown.\u00a0 Danrel gave a captivating performance of his calypso, entitled \u201cChildren in Crisis\u201d and Yandi J as ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10808,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions\/10808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}