“We are going around in circles, spending large sums. Panorama started in 1963 and in 2019, we still have some of the same problems. We have not really evolved as we should have. We have not sat down and studied this event as a single event. Pulled it out of the equation and treat with Panorama as a separate issue. We go through the same rhetoric every year, same argument, same quarrel,” Regrello said.

As the conversation centres around the scaling down of prize money so panmen can get the remittance they have been enjoying since 1997, Regrello reiterated that the players’ incentive was an initiative of BWIA, when it was a sponsor and PanTrinbago capitalised on it.

“We abused that privilege and now we are talking about between $7 to $8 million every year going into the players purse and now they are making it an issue.” Regrello, the CEO of CAL Skiffle said this has to be restructured in a way as an incentive to make players work hard to win or place in the top spots in the competitions.

He suggested that the new PanTrinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore and her executive revisit having the single-pan bands inside of the Panorama and look at removing the medium band competition from the finals and letting the large bands stand on its own, so the competition does not have to drag on until 3 to 4 am the next day. He said the medium band competition could be held separately.

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  • Panorama is large bands and nothing else. The "nothing else" is a lagniappe of single, medium and small bands which, at the end of the day, does nothing to enhance the product "Panorama".

    The large bands bring the crowd, the money, the enthusiasm, the competition. Pan enthusiasts come from abroad for panorama, then fly back out.

    Most of the large bands are sponsored, so win or lose, they win. All other hangers-on (the player majority) lose.

    Somebody, somewhere gotta "do something for pan" men/women.

    The geniuses in NCC, PanTrinbago, the Managers, the Captains, the Ministry of Culture should be able to get it right, even after all dem years.

  • Panorama cost steelbands too much and it is impossible for most bands to get back what they put out. Most bands will forever be in that no money cycle. WHO BENEFIT FROM PANORAMA??????????

  • In general I agree with Junia here except for staging medium on its own night. Ten years ago they tried that and while it made for a better, more streamlined large bands finals Saturday night, the medium/small bands finals, held that Wednesday, was a complete flop. Better to just eliminate medium altogether and have a slightly bigger large bands finals...
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