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Op­po­si­tion fig­ures Ran­dall Mitchell and Stu­art Young are ques­tion­ing the gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to al­low the for­mer Coat of Arms of Trinidad and To­ba­go to re­main in use un­til 2031, rais­ing con­cerns about trans­paren­cy and the treat­ment of the steel­pan.

For­mer cul­ture min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell, in a Face­book post, asked what jus­ti­fi­ca­tion ex­ists for ex­tend­ing the use of the old em­blem and whether the de­ci­sion car­ries any fi­nan­cial cost.

He al­so ques­tioned why the gov­ern­ment would sup­port the in­clu­sion of the steel­pan on the Coat of Arms in Par­lia­ment but now al­low the for­mer ver­sion to con­tin­ue.