Pan Trinbago receives 2026 steelpan players’ remittances

Pan Trin­ba­go says it has re­ceived the 2026 Steel­pan Play­ers’ Re­mit­tances, bring­ing an end to months of un­cer­tain­ty over pay­ments to mu­si­cians who par­tic­i­pat­ed in this year’s Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tion.

In a post on its of­fi­cial so­cial me­dia pages to­day, Pan Trin­ba­go said pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore re­ceived the cheques and wel­comed the re­ceipt of the funds.

Pho­tos shared by the or­gan­i­sa­tion ap­peared to show a cer­e­mo­ni­al cheque val­ued at $4,785,600 be­ing hand­ed over dur­ing the event.

Ear­li­er this year, Pan Trin­ba­go had ex­pressed con­cern over de­lays in the dis­burse­ment of pay­ments, with play­ers await­ing their re­mit­tances fol­low­ing Car­ni­val 2026.

Ac­cord­ing to the post, the re­mit­tances are in­tend­ed for el­i­gi­ble steel­pan play­ers who took part in the 2026 Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tion and form part of on­go­ing ef­forts to recog­nise and re­ward their con­tri­bu­tions to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s na­tion­al in­stru­ment and cul­tur­al her­itage.

The brief cer­e­mo­ny was al­so at­tend­ed by Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin, chair­man of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) Pe­ter Kan­hai, and oth­er NCC com­mis­sion­ers.

Pan Trin­ba­go said fur­ther de­tails on the dis­tri­b­u­tion process will be pro­vid­ed through its of­fi­cial chan­nels.