The Caribbean Music Awards were held last night in Brooklyn, New York, with several prominent T&T artistes featured.

The show brought some of the biggest names in reggae, dancehall, kompa, zouk and soca music under the same roof.

Receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award was the king of soca, Machel Montano, while Reggae artiste Beres Hammond received the Elite Icon Award.

Calypso legend David Rudder as the Elite Calypso Music Honoree, which was presented to him by Kes Diffentaller.

Kes himself was the receipent of the Peoples Choice Award, besting other nominees such as Dexter Daps, Skeng, Patrice Roberts and Shenseea, to name a few.

Buju Banton was presented with the first ever Humanitarian Award.

However, Chutney or Chutney Soca were not among the categories at the awards ceremony.

This was acknowledged by artiste Ravi B on his Facebook page this morning, as he posted “Dear Carib Music Awards Chutney Soca Music is also a part of the Caribbean”.

Since then, a number of persons in the industry have expressed similar sentiments in support, including Daddy Chinee, GI, and Reshma Ramlal.