Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore has praised the sup­port of cor­po­rate T&T, who she says al­lowed them to sup­port all 300 steel­bands across the coun­try for the just con­clud­ed 2025 Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions through an over­all $4 mil­lion in spon­sor­ship.

She made the state­ment while de­liv­er­ing the open­ing ad­dress at ‘Car­ni­val Lagniappe – A Night With The Champs’ at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, on Sat­ur­day night.

Ram­sey-Moore said, “As an or­gan­sa­tion, at least most peo­ple be­lieve that we are re­ceiv­ing sub­ven­tions from Gov­ern­ment. We do not re­ceive sub­ven­tion from Gov­ern­ment. We work [and] re­ceive monies through our events and mem­ber­ships and so we want you to know that cor­po­rate sup­port is very im­por­tant to our or­gan­i­sa­tion, and as such, we saw a tremen­dous amount of sup­port from cor­po­rate T&T, where we were able to raise over $4 mil­lion through cor­po­rate sup­port.”

She al­so praised the pan fra­ter­ni­ty for a “gold­en” sea­son, one which was cel­e­brat­ed on the back­drop of the steel­pan be­ing made the na­tion­al in­stru­ment.

“Panora­ma 2025 has been a land­mark event mark­ing the first Panora­ma where our beloved in­stru­ment holds the of­fi­cial des­ig­na­tion as our na­tion­al mu­si­cal in­stru­ment. Panora­ma 2025 was tru­ly gold­en, un­matched in en­er­gy, at­ten­dance and com­mu­ni­ty spir­it,” Ram­sey-Moore said.

She hailed the 2025 sea­son, “from the pan yards to the grand stage,” as a uni­fi­er of gen­er­a­tions to bring peo­ple to­geth­er.

Re­pub­lic Bank Ex­o­dus was crowned the 2025 Na­tion­al Panora­ma large band con­ven­tion­al win­ner, end­ing a 20-year drought. bp Rene­gades placed sec­ond while San Fer­nan­do’s Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Skif­fle Steel Or­ches­tra placed third. Among the medi­um bands, Katzen­jam­mers topped the field while NGC Cou­va Joy­lan­ders was sec­ond and Pam­beri third.