Trinidad Government Blanks
Steelpan Fraternity



When Steel Talks receives many hundreds of thousands of hits
weekly on our websites from people all over the world looking
for information on the steelpan instrument. In
addition, we field numerous inquires from some of the world's
most prestigious music institutions interested in every aspect
of the steelpan instrument. The popularization of the
steelpan instrument is a global phenomenon that has been fueled
primarily by the steelpan players.

As recently detailed in one of Trinidad's national papers (the
Trinidad Express), it has been brought to our attention that the
Trinidad and Tobago government has a bill payment problem.
Specifically it has a chronic problem - being the root cause of its
steelband musicians and organizations not being paid in a reasonable
and timely fashion. As if it is not embarrassing enough not to pay
your own country's musicians and organization, Trinidad and Tobago
actually owes the foreign participants in the 2005 World Steelband
Music Festival held in the summer of 2005 at Madison Square Garden -
prize purses won at that competition. Several of the foreign
participants have expressed their dismay and shock at the Trinidad and
Tobago government's behavior.

[full story
<http://www.panonthenet.com/breaking-news/2006/trinidad-gov-steelpan.htm\
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