Panorama will re-branded as The "Trinidad and Tobago Panorama Festival" in 2017.  Bands will stay in panyards for preliminaries. The will simultaneous judging throughout country.  Panorama will now be viewed as a one month festival promoting a greater awareness for the steelpan instrument and Trinidad & Tobago according to Keith Dias, President of Pan Trinbago.

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  • When a business goes bankrupt, all you have to do is, change the name an it's business as usual. Better yet, put that business under a different managers name and you have no claims against the new owners. Smart move....

  • Changing the name of something used to be the way to escape prosecution, costs, liabilities etc. You could close down your business, declare bankruptcy and then reopen under a different name.

    Hopefully that is not what's going on here.

    So why the change of name?

    Is that the 'Festival' will now be different from the Panorama?

    Will it be expanded? A festival implies more than just a competition, so what exactly will be the difference other than the name and why change the name if there are going to be no other changes?

    • Wayne: Just another public relations ploy by Keith Diaz to seem relevant as 2017 PANORAMA slips out of his hands. A one month festival promoting a greater awareness for the steelpan instrument and Trinidad and Tobago gives Keith Diaz a new platform from which to approach SPONSORS to pour CASH into PAN TRINBAGO since it looks as if his direct government pipeline has been cut off.

      As much as the Minister of Culture now knows about corruption in Pan Trinbago, she should take the next step and try to get rid of this EXECUTIVE. Byron Serrette came with a HUFF and a PUFF then disappeared. Once again it is starting to look like a repeat of the NEW VISIONARIES with KEITH STANDING TALL when the uproar is over.

  • Are bands performing for free in 2017, or will they be paid in 2018 for 2017 Panorama.  To the best of my awareness, Players have not yet been paid for 2016.

  • Lipstick on a pig.
    • And plenty perfume. 

  • Panorama is basically a competition. You now change to a festival, panorama then, is no more. A waste of time now to bring all the pan racks to the savannah. I can only suggest, have the best tuned pans set-up on the savannah stage,fixed locations so no band need to bring any pans, just the players. This is more festival set-up. Save tons of money. Festival time. No more competition, anyone can take part, start at 9:00am in the morning and finish at 11:00pm at night. Play whatever and arrange whatever you want, at any speed. The next five years, replace all the instruments with electronic pans. No more sinking and heating pans. And we continue(most who were around in the 60;s,70's,80's) up to this day, letting everyone know how great pan was at that time.

    • Patrick:

      It sounds like they changed it to a competitive festival.  Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha  Ou Gooodeeeee... Wot ah ting!

      The pannists did not boycott (which is good).  But I have an unsettling feeling the majority of the pan-loving spectators are not going to put out that kind of dollars in 2017 for a festival ticket, effectively a "boycott" of the festival.  The locals go watch it on TV and the expats go tell we who the winners are long before the first note is struck (played?).

      Wha yuh think? 

      • Dr. deLight: For a man LIVING in TRINIDAD, you never give us any inside information or deep-rooted media scoops on the PAN SCENE down there. Yuh leave big men guessing up here. Please do some investigative journalism and give us a full explanation on this NEW FESTIVAL.

        • Buh what Di Az I reading at this hour!??! Buh look at meh crosses, nah.
          Hah Lord!
          Investigative journalism? Claude, you want me to PRETEND to be something I am not?
          I cyah do dat!!  I eh no journalist.  I know my limitations.

          Besides, I, like many others on this forum look to YOU for the real news.
          You have the sources for, and the knack of obtaining inside information.
          How you do it I have no idea.

          Many days, before I could turn the front page of the Express or even pick up The Guardian you already post the latest news headlines on the forum.

          And they are not merely pan related. It could be bout de unhealthy crime levels in the country.  It could be bout Barack or Michele Obama. Donald Trump. Hilary Clinton. Reverend Jackson. It could be bout the local lack of pan progress. Or, even the American Congress.
          You are definitely a man who knows his Pros & Cons.  My wife thinks you are just marvellous.
          Look Look! You better stay right whey yuh is, eh? OK? ..... Or rite, den.

          And then you torking bout “leaving big men guessing”. Wha yuh think yuh doing wid all dis tork bout Rolly Polly, Dolly Dolly, de College boy, etc.

          Marn, I doh have the requisite cerebral matter to make all these connections. If you want to call a spade a shovel, dah is or-rite. I could follow dat.
          Anything more becomes a little too complicated for my feeble brain.

          Let me share with you some words from my dear uncle which still resonates with me today.
          “Be careful who you pretend to be. You might forget who you are.”

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