NCC: Panmen to be paid by month’s end

[Pan Times]

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Panmen who were not paid their stipend for their appearance in the 2017 Panorama competition should be paid by the end of this month says National Carnival Commission (NCC) Chairman Kenny De Silva.

In response to Thursday’s Newsday article on panmen not being paid yet, De Silva, in a release issued on Thursday night, said, “On the payment of the stipend for 2017, the NCC is also in the process of facilitating the issuing of the cheques which should be available for the pan players by the end of August 2017.” Meanwhile, the NCC is denying that it owes Pan Trinbago the sum of $4.5 million. Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz confirmed to Newsday yesterday that the NCC does not owe Pan Trinbago that sum, he said, it owes the pan players $4.5 million or even more.
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[Cecil hinkson]

patrick ramdoo Diaz said the NCC has the gate receipts for 2017 so they have to pay the players.

[Mercer Ramdoo]

Yeah, De Silva said that pymts would be made by end of August. Why after six months? Calculators are built into computers. Add, Subtract, Divide and Multiply. They have to do better than that.

[Mercer Ramdoo]

Everyone was dogging PanTrinbago and it's President about payment for 2016, this is August 2017 and nutten was paid for 'Rama 2017, and nobody eh say nutten. Allyuh good yes.