The Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­sic Stars Steel Or­ches­tra suf­fered a tremen­dous loss on Fri­day when its man­ag­er dis­cov­ered that $300,000 worth in steel­pans were stolen.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, the man­ag­er said on Feb­ru­ary 28 2020 the pan side left sev­er­al steel pans in an open area in close prox­im­i­ty to the Chi­napoo bas­ket­ball court lo­cat­ed at Chi­napoo Vil­lage, Mor­vant due to on­go­ing re­pairs to the Chi­napoo Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre where it is usu­al­ly kept.

As a re­sult of the COVID-19 Reg­u­la­tions, the pan side was forced to dis­con­tin­ue pan prac­tice ses­sions.

How­ev­er, around 6 pm last Fri­day, the man­ag­er re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that the said steel pans were re­moved from the lo­ca­tion. Up­on ar­rival, he dis­cov­ered 45 steel pans, 37 steel pan stands and 23 steel pan racks all to­geth­er val­ued at ap­prox­i­mate­ly $300,000 miss­ing.

Po­lice are now pur­su­ing the mat­ter.

Ear­li­er this year, Hat­ters Steel Or­ches­tra's pa­n­yard was van­dalised and the mu­sic band suf­fered around $300,000 in loss­es.