Arts and Mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism Min­is­ter Win­ston "Gyp­sy" Pe­ters has as­sured that un­der his di­rec­tion "things would be put in place" to recog­nise for pos­ter­i­ty, the con­tri­bu­tions of Pat Bish­op. Pe­ters, in a news re­lease said: "Bish­op would have touched the life of every na­tion­al in some form or fash­ion. "Be­cause of this, her un­ex­pect­ed death is a colos­sal cul­tur­al loss to this coun­try. "Three para­graphs are in­suf­fi­cient to ef­fec­tive­ly out­line her tal­ents and con­tri­bu­tions. "I dare say three days are in­ad­e­quate to apt­ly de­scribe and ar­tic­u­late her ac­com­plish­ments."

Pe­ters said Bish­op was the prover­bial salt in every cul­tur­al con­coc­tion of note pro­duced in T&T over the last 50 years. List­ing some of the things Bish­op was to peo­ple, he added: "The la­dy with the ba­ton in front of the or­ches­tra at the Na­tion­al Steel­band Fes­ti­val, the overt­ly-out­spo­ken na­tion­al­ist who could ex­pound on vir­tu­al­ly any sub­ject, the po­lit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor who of­ten an­noyed pow­er­ful peo­ple with her strong an­a­lyt­i­cal opin­ions...those are but some of what makes Pat Bish­op's loss so epic and im­mea­sur­able to the cul­tur­al land­scape of T&T. "She lived for cul­ture and lit­er­al­ly died in the pur­suit of it as well."

Bish­op col­lapsed last Sat­ur­day dur­ing a pan­el meet­ing on cul­ture at the Min­istry of Plan­ning and the Econ­o­my. She died short­ly af­ter at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Join­ing in pay­ing trib­ute to Bish­op was the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Bands As­so­ci­a­tion (NC­BA). The NC­BA not­ed that Bish­op was just as pop­u­lar in the mas fra­ter­ni­ty as she was in oth­er artis­tic as­pects of the Car­ni­val sce­nario. It added: "She al­ways was pas­sion­ate in her quest for ex­cel­lence to en­sure the high­est stan­dard and qual­i­ty of mas cos­tum­ing. "It was her firm be­lief that art should en­light­en, ad­vo­cate and re­flect the so­ci­ety and make a state­ment about its ills as well as its beau­ty."She fo­cussed great at­ten­tion on keep­ing all as­pects of tra­di­tion­al Car­ni­val alive and rel­e­vant. "To this end she be­came in­volved on mas ad­ju­di­ca­tion, not as a judge, but as crit­ic and fa­cil­i­ta­tor." Bish­op was the dri­ving force be­hind the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion's Car­ni­val In­sti­tute, the re­lease added.