Starlift gets a $1.2M home

BELIEVE it or not, but a $1.2 million building which will house PCS Starlift Steel Orchestra on a piece of land worth over one million dollars will lie idle until Ash Wednesday. That’s the sad, but true tale of yet another piece of bad management.

The Mayor of Port-of-Spain Murchison Brown, along with members of the City Council, showed the newly built pan theatre to Minister of Culture Joan Yuille Williams yesterday morning. The minister was impressed with what she saw after the tour, and was introduced to the managing director of Home Construction Ltd (HCL) on her way out. She felt pleased as she is also involved in the process of remodelling Desperadoes Pan Theatre. Another building that was left to go to waste. Stalift’s panyard had to make way for the construction of a project known as 1 Woodbook Place being built by HCL.

Starlift’s management told the minister that the band will be ready to move in to their new home on Ash Wednesday as they are currently in practice for this year’s Panorama competition. But it seem that the management and members of PCS Starlift are blind to the potential the new venue has to earn revenue for their organisation. The theatre is on 3,000 square metres of land, and is completely fenced with proper roads and street lighting all ready for use. It will be foolhardy of Starlift not to take possession of their new property and try to make some money for the carnival season. Anthony Fifi also expressed the same sentiments as he felt that the band would be able to make quite a sum at the new venue. It’s a pity Petrotrin Phase 11 Pan Groove Pan Theatre is not completed as yet. Maybe Starlift would have learnt a thing or two from them, he hinted.