Tobago Carnival gets $12m as festival debt falls to $5m

Pan Trin­ba­go will par­tic­i­pate in To­ba­go Car­ni­val af­ter the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly set­tled the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s out­stand­ing pay­ments, with its Pan and Pow­der event sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 31 and ded­i­cat­ed to the late Mighty Spar­row.

Pan Trin­ba­go To­ba­go Re­gion chair­man Ka­dion Moore an­nounced the de­ci­sion at a press con­fer­ence on Wednes­day, thank­ing Tourism Sec­re­tary Zor­isha Hack­ett and To­ba­go Fes­ti­vals Com­mis­sion Lim­it­ed (TF­CL) chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Mr Cow­an for re­solv­ing the pay­ment is­sues.

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The an­nounce­ment comes af­ter Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore told Guardian Me­dia on Mon­day that the or­gan­i­sa­tion would boy­cott the an­nu­al fes­ti­val over out­stand­ing pay­ments of $1.7 mil­lion for last year’s Pan Omega and Pan and Pow­der events.