REUTERS reports on new calypso songs banned from airwaves

The story on the banned MASH 2013 calypsos has now hit the major international news agencies… See the Reuters report below:

“Slanderous” new calypso songs banned from Guyana’s airwaves – Reuters report

GEORGETOWN | Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:36pm EST – REUTERS

(Reuters) – Calypso lyrics decrying corruption and excess have so irked Guyana’s government that new songs from the popular Caribbean music genre have been banned from state airwaves.

Calypso music has long been a proud and central feature of life in Guyana, a laid-back former British colony of just 750,000 people on the northeast shoulder of South America.   

But the politically spicy lyrics of some recent songs have been too much for the government. Staff at the government-run National Communications Network, or NCN, received a directive this week prohibiting the broadcast of new calypso songs. [read more – see link below]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/01/us-guyana-calypso-idUSBRE92013A20130301