Pic-O-De-Crop winner would like to see NCF ‘up de ting’
The 2017 Pic-O-De-Crop Calypso Monarch, Ian ‘iWeb’ Webster would like to see the day when an increase in the prize money can be given to the person who wins this or any other Calypso singing competition.
Speaking with the media recently after he officially collected the keys to his Nissan jeep that he won in the 2017 Courtesy Mount Gay Pic-O-De-Crop calypso competition, Webster said that it would be good to see an increase in the prize money being offered to the winner of one of these competitions or even a prize like a house and/or land as these prizes would be more encouraging to Calypsonians.
“I know we had a situation last year where a patron was given the opportunity to win house and land and that kind of stuff, you know and probably something like for the Calypsonians would certainly, I believe incite a bit more interest. You may see some of the stalwarts even returning, you never know. But you know, it is something that can be looked at…Obviously everything has to be examined within the context. I don’t know the inner workings of the NCF, what they have to do to put on the Crop Over festival, but I certainly like to see the day that they are able to probably give an artist a million dollars or something like that, you never know, but we [are] hoping.”
Responding to a question from the media regarding if he would like to see prizes that appreciate in value rather than depreciate in value as another of his colleague stated recently in another section of the press, iWeb stated that the appreciation and/or depreciation value of any given prize depends on what the winner choses to do with it.
“Well again, I think that it is a matter of perspective because how you deal with for example, a car, and you take a car and you decide that you want to sell the car, you know, and you sell the car and you get cash for that, you put that on an account, it appreciates. It depends on how the person’s mind operates and how they are able to manage their business. So it is really down to the individual. So you know anything can appreciate, it is just a matter of how you invest it.” (PJT)