Allen confident he will win Calypso Monarch title again

Sunday night's Dimanche Gras show brings down the curtain on pre-Carinval activities and heralds the start of two days of revelry in what the world knows as the "Greatest show on earth".

The million-dollar production is on the tmeme of the drama and theatre of the Dimanche Gras show, highlighting the different ethnic groups in Trinidad and Tobago.

The highlights include the King and Queen of the Bands contest and the Calypso Monarch competition. Reigning monarch Kurt Allen is confident that he will retain his crown, which he won in 2010 with a political satire. The order of appearance is:

1. Weston “Cro Cro” Rawlins —Compare and Contrast/Six For A Nine
2. Kizzy Ruiz— “De Anti Corruption Cure”/”De Engine Stall”
3. Dexter “Stinger” Parsons
4. Kurt Allen
5. Karene Asche—Careful What You Ask For/Uncle Jack
6. Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool
7. Devon Seales—Retrorama/Ah Need Meh Carnival
8. Joanne “Tigress” Rowley—Mature Woman/Woman To Woman
9. Michael ‘Sugar Aloes’ Osouna
10. Tameika Darius
11. Rodney “Benjai” Le Blanc —Trini
12. Brian London

The Dimanche Gras show starts at 6 pm and can be seen on the Internet at CNMG.