Trinidad Newsday
Struggles with sponsorship, stipends but
Steelband officials in Tobago are pressing on with preparations for Panorama despite the challenges.
While some blamed the non-payment of players' remittances and cutbacks in sponsorship for a lack of interest in participating, others were optimistic.
Mc Nicols Nicholson, manager of the medium band Carib Dixieland, said the non-payment of stipends had cast a dim light over its preparations.
"We have been complaining about players and the non-payment of stipends for 2018 and 2019. That is causing a lot of problems all over the place where some players say they not even playing," he told Newsday.
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