There may not be any International Power Soca Monarch or Groovy Soca Monarch competitions produced by promoter William Munro next year, comments attributed to him yesterday on a blog called Etceterabuzz.com suggested.
The blog stated that Munro, who conceptualised and has produced the Soca Monarch competitions since 1993 through the Caribbean Prestige Foundation, told the blogger he was “tired and fed-up of it all”, and will not be producing the competitions anymore.
The blog set the internet abuzz as people sent e-mails, tweeted and posted messages on social media, asking if the statements were accurate. When the Express contacted Munro, he said he was ill and in bed, trying to recuperate.
He said he will answer questions today.
Three weeks ago at the prize-distribution ceremony for the Soca Monarch competitions at the Hyatt Regency (Trinidad) hotel in Port of Spain, Munro told the Express he intended to hand over the production of Soca Monarch to the Government.
He said he was tired of the hard work he had to put into producing the competitions over the past 21 years, and he wanted to sit back and relax now.
Munro, who has been producing various events for 40 years, said he had enough of people accusing him of wrong-doing and saying he made millions from the Soca Monarch events.
“I don’t need the Soca Monarch to live or to get money. I am tired of people saying that ‘Munro making a set of money from the Soca Monarch’. I have businesses that I have built over the years successfully. I don’t need to take money from soca artistes or from money sponsors bring into the Soca Monarch. Let the Government take it,” he said previously.