As recently re-elected Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore readies the organisation for yet another Panorama, she has big plans for it including re-introducing regional competitions and helping Trinidad and Tobago to earn forex.
Ramsey-Moore and her team will launch the annual competition on November 17 at Phase II Pan Groove’s, Hamilton Street, Woodbrook, panyard.
Following the launch, the National Single Pan preliminaries will begin in the Northern Region on November 22 and continue in the Eastern, South/Central, and Tobago regions until November 30.
Carnival 2025 will be launched by the National Carnival Commission (NCC) on November 23, at the Drag, Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, with the theme, No Place Like Home.
The pan launch is one Ramsey-Moore is looking keenly toward, she said in a phone interview on November 7.
She said, “This year we are going to be doing the Eastern Region zonal finals under the patronage of the MP D’Abadie/O’Meara Lisa Morris-Julian. That is a new competition we will be introducing in the east, so the east bands have another bite of the cherry. We are going to declare an Eastern Region Panorama champion.”
The competition will be held in Arima.
[caption id="attachment_1119246" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Newtown Playboys is joined by Kernal Roberts, during its performance of Pan in A Minor in the 2024 National Panorama Single Pan finals, at the Queen's Park Savannah. The 2025 competition for single pan bands will begin November 22. - Photo by Angelo Marcelle[/caption]
Ramsey-Moore said the model was first introduced in the South/Central region during the 2024 Panorama, and the 2025 eastern event is a test for the reintroduction of the regional competitions.
“I think going forward, by 2026, we are going to be bringing back all of the regional championships because we think it is very important that the communities are involved.
“After seeing the performances of their bands in the preliminaries in the panyards, then we move everything north. We believe pan is a community soul and competition drives that kind of community pride and moving of the generations together,” she said.
The reintroduction of the regional competitions aims to stimulate and grow community spirit, she said.
As she progresses in her new term, Ramsey-Moore wants to focus on pan’s global ascendancy.
She began with “building out” Pan Trinbago’s marketing department to achieve this.
[caption id="attachment_1119247" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore. -[/caption]
The organisation's newly-elected PRO and Desperadoes’ general manager Kwesi Moore has taken charge of the staff and was “working hard” on building out its external relations department, she said.
“What we are really doing in Pan Trinbago, since I have taken over as president, is to build out the administration. And whilst we would have built out administratively, our treasury department and then our marketing department, and now we are going to bring on a consultant, on
