Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore has un­der­scored the need for ear­ly and mean­ing­ful con­sul­ta­tion with the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion ahead of the 2027 Na­tion­al Schools’ Panora­ma, fol­low­ing con­cerns raised over venue changes for the 2026 fi­nals.

The is­sue arose af­ter the 2026 Na­tion­al Schools’ Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tion, which show­cas­es the coun­try’s top pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary school steel­bands, had its fi­nals re­lo­cat­ed from Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain to Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do, sched­uled for to­day.

While Ram­sey-Moore said Pan Trin­ba­go ful­ly sup­ports tak­ing the na­tion­al in­stru­ment to com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad and To­ba­go, she main­tained that the short no­tice and lack of con­sul­ta­tion placed un­due strain on schools.