A plan by Lord Su­pe­ri­or’s fam­i­ly to host his fu­ner­al at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts has been dashed af­ter the re­quest for the fa­cil­i­ty was de­clined by the Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Cul­ture and the Arts.

Dr An­drew Mar­cano, bet­ter known of Lord Su­pe­ri­or, died in New York on No­vem­ber 25. The Rio Claro-born ca­lyp­so leg­end was 79.

Since then his fam­i­ly had been in talks with the min­istry in the hope of hav­ing his memo­r­i­al cer­e­mo­ny at NA­PA.