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Carisa Lee

Pres­i­dent of Pan Trin­ba­go, Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore, says the or­gan­i­sa­tion had to pro­vide fi­nan­cial sup­port to sev­er­al pan bands par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Sin­gle Pan com­pe­ti­tion, as the bands have not yet re­ceived gov­ern­ment fund­ing. The pre­lim­i­nar­ies be­gan on No­vem­ber 12.

“Our bands are ready de­spite all the chal­lenges, be­cause nor­mal­ly, be­fore every com­pe­ti­tion, bands would re­ceive their as­sis­tance fees to mo­bilise and get ready. But be­cause of our re­silient spir­it, they were all ready to go,” she said.