00:00downtown port spain was transformed into a sea of white on wednesday as tens of thousands of
00:06pan lovers took to the streets for panchin bagels annual pan and powder event despite the bad weather
00:13panantola yesterday was majestic it was fantastic in spite of the rains people to note in their
00:23numbers at one stage i got a big spit scared but it showed that trinidad and tobogonians
00:33every creed and race found that equal place supporting our youth in pan because this year
00:42we would have dedicated the pan months to the youths in pan during panorama when we have
00:48a savannah party we have over 30 000 persons in the savannah which is north stand grandstand and
00:56the drag and trust me i believe we had more than 30 000 persons in this event panchin bagel reports
01:06that the event was incident free now in its fifth year ramsey moore says pan and powder is a testament
01:14that steel pan has more than proven its worth as a tourism product we would have seen a number of
01:21returning nationals for pan months they've come and they looked forward to all the events that we
01:31celebrated including world steel bandy which was another great event and then of course all the
01:38events in the regions and then yesterday i was surprised when people persons were saying to me
01:44mr we are home we came for these events and they had a wonderful time and so when we talk
01:51about tourism
01:52because the culture itself it's all about cultural tourism persons from around the world that can come
01:58home this ronal and tobago and they spend so the country in itself will earn foreign exchange outside
02:07of carnival so with the pantry and bagels mantra of no season for pan we have been developing events and
02:16we have been developing products to encourage foreigners to come to our land and enjoy still pan outside of
02:24carnival the pantry and bagel president tells tv6 news the organization is expecting some degree of financial
02:31support from the government to be forthcoming even as she acknowledges that prize monies from panorama
02:382026 are still outstanding so far the small bands and the single pan bands have been paid their prices and
02:49the uh players
02:52remittances have been paid all right so those have been paid and we are awaiting the major payouts
03:00for junior panorama medium finals and large finals i have been in discussions with our line minister
03:11and she has assured me and so we we we though it's late we have our fingers crossed that by
03:19the beginning
03:20of september we are going to receive prizes we are ready to start the season some bands have already started
03:27practicing because we have a finals that will come off in november that is the singapore finals and they
03:35have also um began practicing so we definitely look forward to bands receiving what is due to them and we
03:45really really cannot go beyond september without those prizes we are not we we are going there will be a
03:53panorama 2027 there will be a panorama we are resilient we are a group that we will cooperate but we
04:01cannot
04:02definitely cannot go beyond first week in september without our prizes renasa cutting tv6 news
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