Pan Trin­ba­go is in cri­sis. That's the view of for­mer Pan Trin­ba­go ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore, who is seek­ing elec­tion as pres­i­dent of the or­gan­i­sa­tion. Elec­tions for a new Pan Trin­ba­go ex­ec­u­tive will take place on Oc­to­ber 28. Nom­i­na­tions close to­mor­row. Ram­sey-Moore, a for­mer mem­ber of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly, and her team filed their nom­i­na­tion pa­pers at Pan Trin­ba­go's of­fice on Park Street, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day. Of­fi­cials of the or­gan­i­sa­tion ques­tioned the rea­son for me­dia work­ers be­ing in the build­ing yes­ter­day, say­ing there was to be no elec­toral ac­tiv­i­ty by any­one at the of­fice.

They said if Ram­sey-Moore was to have any me­dia-re­lat­ed event it could be held at an­oth­er venue, and claimed they had no knowl­edge of the event. Min­utes lat­er, Ram­sey-Moore and her team en­tered, ac­com­pa­nied by pan­nist Len "Boogsie" Sharpe. Ram­sey-Moore said there was need to do more for pan­men and an ur­gent need for lead­ers with a new vi­sion to run Pan Trin­ba­go.

She said busi­ness­men had dis­con­tin­ued their sup­port for the steel­band body un­der the lead­er­ship of in­cum­bent pres­i­dent Kei­th Di­az but un­der her lead­er­ship, Pan Trin­ba­go would move to get the sup­port of the Gov­ern­ment and the pri­vate sec­tor. "We are about change. We are about ser­vant lead­er­ship. We are about tak­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion to an­oth­er lev­el," she added. Sharpe ap­pealed to the slate of can­di­dates to en­sure they won the elec­tions. He said Oc­to­ber 28 was his birth­day and "your vic­to­ry must be my birth­day gift."