The 2025 edi­tion of the Na­tion­al Panora­ma Medi­um Con­ven­tion­al Bands Se­mi-Fi­nals has record­ed some of its high­est num­bered at­ten­dance in re­cent mem­o­ry dur­ing a Trinidad Car­ni­val sea­son, says the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture & The Arts.

A re­lease from the Min­istry says the event, which was helmed by Pan Trin­ba­go and took place on Sun­day 16 Feb­ru­ary 2025 at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port of Spain, host­ed “a stag­ger­ing 28,300 Steel­pan sup­port­ers”.

“The clear ap­petite and un­yield­ing ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the Steel­pan by the gen­er­al pub­lic is a sym­bol­ic re­flec­tion of Panora­ma as a gen­er­a­tional cul­tur­al sta­ple—a com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven ex­pe­ri­ence in­volv­ing peo­ple from all walks of life,” said Sen­a­tor Ran­dall Mitchell, Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts, who de­scribed the event as “well-or­gan­ised, well-man­aged and in­ci­dent-free”.