PAN PAIN!!! Petrotrin cutting and BEVERLEY cutting and GYPSY cutting Steelband and PAN PLAYERS MONEY

[Claude Gonzales]

Newsday January 9th, 2019

Yvonne Webb

"SPONSORSHIP enjoyed by three steelbands has been pulled by Petrotrin’s successor company Heritage Petroleum Company Ltd, weeks before the preliminary round of the National Panorama competition is scheduled to kick off."

"Ramsey-Moore has confirmed that was insufficient [$20 million] to manage its affairs and has indicated she might be heading back, cap-in-hand, to beg for a few millions more."

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[odw]

"The inevitable fall-out on culture and Carnival was predicted but bands seem to have been caught napping, as they were still holding out hope especially as government has slashed its annual subvention by some $10 million."

[Carl McLean]

The Petrotrin cut back is worse than stated above as they not only fully sponsored the 3 bands referred above but also financially assisted 10 other unsponsored bands.

[Claude Gonzales]

True: "This crushing blow to these three bands and approximately 20 others it previously assisted, comes less than two months after Petrotrin permanently shut its doors and sent home its 5,000-strong work force last November."

[Ingrid Blackwood-Belle]

Beverley, now that Katzenjammers' sponsors have fallen by the wayside, please let us know how YOU are going to pay your band members. Obviously, the "cap in hand" process will not work this time.

[Claude Gonzales]

TEAM REBUILD or TEAM REBEG?