Pan Trinbago is out of tune

Would Pan Trinbago be able to boast about where it has reached today if there had been no year in, year out donations from the public purse? I am not referring to individual dedication of the players or their deep love of the steel pan.

I am alluding to gross mismanagement on several levels occurring within the fraternity.

Are they all so talented that they dare not be scrutinised or asked “where the money gone?” Who is supposed to be more vexed than whom? Are they now expecting government after government to keep putting money down a black hole? What makes Pan Trinbago untouchable from government intervention? Is the music so sweet? Is the art of pan so terrific that Pan Trinbago must be allowed to do exactly as it wants? TT is in a fiscal guava season of unprecedented proportions and the public and the Government are supposed to feel themselves privileged to allow pertinent questions to remain unanswered? The players as well as the spectators have been grossly used and abused for too long.

When it used to be just pan around the neck there was no confusion like what is going on now. The tune of choice to be played this year by the small, medium and large bands is named “Look at us how we never expected to reach.” Written by the government and people of TT .

Lynette Joseph Diego Martin