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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

New app designed to develop artistes

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Minister of Trade and Industry Senator Paula Gopee-Scoon, right, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, second from left, composer/artist Erphaan Alves, second from right, and app developer Lee Aleong, left, following the successful launch of AMPT, the new music booking app developed by MusicTT.

Minister of Trade and Industry Senator Paula Gopee-Scoon, right, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, second from left, composer/artist Erphaan Alves, second from right, and app developer Lee Aleong, left, following the successful launch of AMPT, the new music booking app developed by MusicTT.

Ministry of Trade and Industry

Lo­cal mu­si­cians and man­agers of per­for­mance venues in Port-of-Spain and en­vi­rons can now book live acts and make pay­ments on­line via AMPT—a new app de­vel­oped by Mu­sicTT, an agency of the Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try. The AMPT app which was launched on Sep­tem­ber 6, by Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter, Sen­a­tor Paula Gopee-Scoon, was de­signed by lo­cal de­vel­op­ers Lee Ale­ong and An­gel Stew­art for use by cre­ative en­tre­pre­neurs lo­cal­ly and re­gion­al­ly. Afi­ciona­dos of Live Mu­sic can al­so check the app to see where a favourite artiste/group is per­form­ing.

Min­is­ter Gopee-Scoon laud­ed the work be­ing un­der­tak­en by Mu­sicTT to in­crease the eco­nom­ic vi­a­bil­i­ty of lo­cal mu­si­cians not­ing that the de­vel­op­ment of tech­nol­o­gy-dri­ven in­no­va­tion and en­tre­pre­neur­ship align per­fect­ly with the Gov­ern­ment’s Na­tion­al De­vel­op­ment Strat­e­gy/Vi­sion 2030. “The Gov­ern­ment,” she added “is con­stant­ly mon­i­tor­ing glob­al trends to keep abreast of the strate­gies re­quired to mod­ernise and mon­e­tise our lo­cal tal­ent. The Mu­sic In­dus­try adds fur­ther val­ue to the econ­o­my by fos­ter­ing in­no­va­tion and cre­ativ­i­ty while pro­vid­ing a vi­able plat­form for di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion and gen­er­a­tion of ex­port earn­ings.”

The Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter al­so laud­ed the video pro­mot­ing in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty (IP) rights on which Mu­sicTT col­lab­o­rat­ed with the In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Of­fice (IPO) of the Min­istry of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Le­gal Af­fairs and the World In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WIPO).

Min­is­ter Gopee-Scoon em­pha­sised that “...a func­tion­ing sys­tem of in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights is fun­da­men­tal to suc­cess­ful com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion and must be up­held in or­der for our Mu­sic In­dus­try to thrive....It is im­por­tant for the artiste to be ac­knowl­edged and be paid fair­ly for his or her cre­ation.”

Chair­man of Mu­sicTT John Arnold in­di­cat­ed that the main fo­cus of the agency was to fa­cil­i­tate the gen­er­a­tion of wealth among lo­cal cre­atives through its ac­tiv­i­ties. The AMPT app, he stat­ed, sig­nals the fu­ture of the dig­i­tal econ­o­my of T&T. He urged per­form­ers and man­agers of venues in Port-of-Spain to utilise the AMPT app to make avail­able to the pub­lic the va­ri­ety of live mu­si­cal tal­ent ac­ces­si­ble lo­cal­ly.

AMPT sup­ports artiste reg­is­tra­tion, venue book­ings and al­so pro­motes live mu­sic events and per­for­mances in and around the cap­i­tal city. Peo­ple in­ter­est­ed in book­ing a live act can down­load the app which is avail­able for both Ap­ple and an­droid de­vices, pe­ruse venues and per­form­ers’ in­for­ma­tion, look at past per­for­mances and au­di­tions pri­or to artist se­lec­tion.


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