More than three months af­ter Car­ni­val 2026, steel­bands across T&T are still wait­ing to re­ceive their Panora­ma prize mon­ey, with Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore say­ing thou­sands of play­ers and stake­hold­ers re­main in lim­bo.

As steel­bands gath­ered in the spir­it of love and to­geth­er­ness at this year’s Com­PAN­ions Steel­band Sports & Fam­i­ly Day yes­ter­day, there was a feel­ing of un­cer­tain­ty and frus­tra­tion over the de­lay.

Speak­ing with the Sun­day Guardian at the event at Nel­son Man­dela Park, Ram­sey-Moore said as­sur­ances were orig­i­nal­ly giv­en by Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin that most pay­ments would be made by the end of May.