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Friday, July 18, 2025

Pan Trin­ba­go stands by de­ci­sion

58 bands to play at Savannah party

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Pan Trin­ba­go yes­ter­day stood by its de­ci­sion to al­low 58 bands to per­form at Panora­ma se­mi-fi­nals Sun­day.

The de­ci­sion was re­port­ed to have caused con­flict with the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion, which has tak­en con­trol of as­pects of Panora­ma in­clud­ing the col­lec­tion of gate re­ceipts and all rev­enues com­ing in­to Pan Trin­ba­go.

In­sist­ing there was noth­ing out of the or­di­nary in se­lect­ing 58 bands to per­form in Panora­ma, Pan Trin­ba­go's trea­sur­er, Richard Forteau, said it was the steel­band body's mem­ber­ship that made this de­ci­sion.

A to­tal of 30 small, 14 medi­um and 14 large steel or­ches­tras are com­pet­ing on Sun­day. He said it was too late to change their de­ci­sion about band par­tic­i­pa­tion at this time.

"Who's hav­ing Panora­ma? The NCC?" he asked.

He said the NCC did not have any con­ver­sa­tion with Pan Trin­ba­go over their de­ci­sion to choose 58 bands and want­ed to know who was spread­ing that in­for­ma­tion.

He said the mem­ber­ship's de­ci­sion was backed by an Act of Par­lia­ment and a Cab­i­net minute giv­ing them the au­thor­i­ty to man­age Panora­ma.

"I don't know if the NCC is li­cenced to run Panora­ma."

He said, in ad­di­tion to col­lect­ing all rev­enue, the NCC is re­spon­si­ble for putting up in­fra­struc­ture for the stag­ing of the com­pe­ti­tion and the pay­ing of prize mon­ey to win­ners.

Forteau said Pan Trin­ba­go chose 58 bands to per­form be­cause of the num­ber of bands that pre­sent­ed them­selves for par­tic­i­pa­tion in the com­pe­ti­tion.

He said out of 15 large bands, they chose 14, out of 28 medi­um, they chose an­oth­er 14 and out of 58 small bands, they chose 30.

He said this was around the same num­ber that usu­al­ly par­tic­i­pate in Panora­ma.

Forteau said Panora­ma se­mi-fi­nals will be­gin at 9 am Sun­day and fin­ish on time.

Ef­forts to reach NCC chair­man, Ken­ny de Sil­va yes­ter­day were not suc­cess­ful.


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