Pan Trinbago describes audit as ‘hostile takeover’

The pan body is also referring to Gadsby- Dolly’s statement earlier in the season when she said Pan Trinbago will no longer have sole control over the annual Panorama competition, in that gate receipts from its competitions and other revenue-generating activities will be collected by the National Carnival Commission (NCC), Pan Trinbago’s Public Relations Officer, Michael L Joseph, said in a statement to the media, “We are viewing the move by the Ministry and the NCC, as a hostile takeover of the Carnival interest groups.

After the sacrifice we have made throughout the years to make this industry the billion- dollar product that it has become, the powers that be, without any form of consultation with the Carnival stakeholders, is moving post-haste to upstage and restructure the people’s culture.” Joseph also said Pan Trinbago views the moves by the Ministry and the NCC as an infringement of the right to enjoy the fullness of “our heritage instrument” that was carved out through blood, sweat and tears by pioneers who suffered humiliation and disrespect by the very society who labelled them rogues and vagabonds and outcasts.