The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) has dis­tanced it­self from the or­gan­is­ers of the con­tro­ver­sial One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val and is now call­ing for sweep­ing leg­isla­tive re­form in the en­ter­tain­ment and tourism sec­tors, la­belling the cur­rent mo­ment “piv­otal”.

In a state­ment is­sued Mon­day, the as­so­ci­a­tion ex­pressed deep con­cern over the fall­out from the event, which fea­tured Vy­bz Kar­tel and oth­er ma­jor acts but has drawn wide­spread crit­i­cism from pa­trons and stake­hold­ers. The TTPA stressed that the event’s pro­duc­er is not a mem­ber of the as­so­ci­a­tion.

“To be clear – we do not speak for the group nor do we speak on be­half of the group,” the TTPA said. “How­ev­er, we want to say – at all times, it is our hope that events held on our shores are ex­e­cut­ed suc­cess­ful­ly. When that does not hap­pen, it im­pacts the whole in­dus­try.”