Pan Trinbago to lose $5m in revenue

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Revenues for Pan Trinbago, the governing body for pan players, could fall by at least $5 million due to the cancellation of Carnival 2021.

While Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s confirmation—that next year’s Carnival was not on in light of the COVID-19 pandemic—was met with agreement from cultural stakeholders, several entities associated with the greatest show on earth are already counting their losses.

Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore said while a virtual Carnival presentation remains an option for next year, the economic impact of the loss of the real thing cannot be ignored.

....“What we also know is that there will be no virtual Panorama competition because this will be extremely difficult to stage,” Ramsey-Moore told the Sunday Express in an interview on Thursday.

“The bands and our organisation are going to be impacted. The majority of our revenue is raised during the Carnival period, and at this time, we have been putting our figures together because we now have to review our financial position going forward.

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Every TRINIDADIAN I have ever met has told me that PAN MUSIC and PANORAMA MUSIC is THE GREATEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD. And PAN TRINBAGO is sitting on DECADES of PAN and PANORAMA MUSIC. You mean they cannot SELECT some of that music and PACKAGE it and get it PLAYING AROUND THE GLOBE to GENERATE THAT FIVE MILLION IN "LOSSES."

And they spend about FIVE MILLION a year in EXECUTIVE and STAFF SALARIES -- do they really need such a BIG STAFF and EXECUTIVE and HIGH SALARIES and PERKS?

PAN MUSIC is gaining more and more GLOBAL POPULARITY and BEVERLEY and DENISE and MARCUS and LAUREN are sitting down in CONTROL of THE GREATEST STEELBAND PLATFORM in the WORLD -- PAN TRINBAGO. If they cannot organize and sell 5 MILLION TT DOLLARS worth of PAN MUSIC around THE GLOBE (especially with the large EXPAT POPULATION out there) then they should just HAND OVER THE REIGNS to MENDEZ and HAREWOOD and GULSTON and LINDSAY and KEITH DIAZ right now. Instead of spending the NEXT YEAR infighting to win the 2021 ELECTION.

I am sure that there are MARKETING PEOPLE in and out of TRINIDAD who could help them -- if they are not TOO PROUD TO BEG FOR HELP.

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Claude Gonzales October 4, 2020 at 1:41pm

Every TRINIDADIAN I have ever met has told me that PAN MUSIC and PANORAMA MUSIC is THE GREATEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD. And PAN TRINBAGO is sitting on DECADES of PAN and PANORAMA MUSIC. You mean they cannot SELECT some of that music and PACKAGE it and get it PLAYING AROUND THE GLOBE to GENERATE THAT FIVE MILLION IN "LOSSES."

And they spend about FIVE MILLION a year in EXECUTIVE and STAFF SALARIES -- do they really need such a BIG STAFF and EXECUTIVE and HIGH SALARIES and PERKS?

PAN MUSIC is gaining more and more GLOBAL POPULARITY and BEVERLEY and DENISE and MARCUS and LAUREN are sitting down in CONTROL of THE GREATEST STEELBAND PLATFORM in the WORLD -- PAN TRINBAGO. If they cannot organize and sell 5 MILLION TT DOLLARS worth of PAN MUSIC around THE GLOBE (especially with the large EXPAT POPULATION out there) then they should just HAND OVER THE REIGNS to MENDEZ and HAREWOOD and GULSTON and LINDSAY and KEITH DIAZ right now. Instead of spending the NEXT YEAR infighting to win the 2021 ELECTION.

I am sure that there are MARKETING PEOPLE in and out of TRINIDAD who could help them -- if they are not TOO PROUD TO BEG FOR HELP.

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