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Pan Trin­ba­go has ex­pressed deep dis­ap­point­ment at the gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to de­fer the of­fi­cial im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Steel­pan on the na­tion­al Coat of Arms un­til 2031.

The or­gan­i­sa­tion said the move un­der­mines the his­toric amend­ment passed in Feb­ru­ary 2025, which had re­ceived unan­i­mous sup­port in Par­lia­ment and for­mal­ly recog­nised the Steel­pan as part of the coun­try’s na­tion­al em­blem.

Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent, Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore, said the de­lay con­tra­dicts the uni­ty demon­strat­ed ear­li­er this year when both sides of the House agreed that the Steel­pan de­serves its place on the Coat of Arms.