Pan Trin­ba­go Pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore says she is look­ing for­ward to hear­ing Re­pub­lic Bank Ex­o­dus Steel Or­ches­tra play Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller’s Sa­van­nah Grass in the Panora­ma fi­nal.

“We wish them all the best. I look for­ward to them per­form­ing Sa­van­nah Grass at the Panora­ma fi­nals. Pan Trin­ba­go will not ap­peal the de­ci­sion,” Ram­sey-Moore said in a tele­phone in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia on Fri­day night.

Ram­sey-Moore made the state­ment mo­ments af­ter Jus­tice Kevin Ram­cha­ran ruled that the four-time Panora­ma cham­pi­ons can play the song for the fi­nal.

Ram­cha­ran gave the judge­ment fol­low­ing an emer­gency High Court sit­ting to rule on an in­junc­tion filed ear­li­er in the day by Ex­o­dus.

Ram­sey-Moore said Pan Trin­ba­go will not be ap­peal­ing Ram­cha­ran’s de­ci­sion.

She was not in the court on Fri­day as she was in To­ba­go for the To­ba­go Panora­ma fi­nal.

Pan Trin­ba­go’s Vice Pres­i­dent Car­lan Hare­wood, Trea­sur­er Ger­ard Mendez and Ex­ter­nal Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer Dane Gul­ston ap­peared at the Port-of-Spain High Court on be­half of the ex­ec­u­tive.

At­tor­ney Christlyn Moore rep­re­sent­ed Pan Trin­ba­go.

Ram­sey-Moore stood by the ex­ec­u­tive’s de­ci­sion to ini­tial­ly bar Ex­o­dus from chang­ing their tune of choice.

On Tues­day, Ex­o­dus’ man­age­ment de­cid­ed to change the band’s tune of choice.

How­ev­er, on Wednes­day Pan Trin­ba­go barred the move af­ter a unan­i­mous vote by the ex­ec­u­tive af­ter an emer­gency meet­ing to dis­cuss the sit­u­a­tion.

On Thurs­day, Ex­o­dus sent a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter to Pan Trin­ba­go say­ing the de­ci­sion to bar the song was “ar­bi­trary and not rea­son­able”.

There was no rule stat­ing ex­plic­it­ly that a band was al­lowed or pre­vent­ed from chang­ing its tune of choice.

Pan Trin­ba­go re­spond­ed to the pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter yes­ter­day stat­ing that the or­gan­i­sa­tion gave care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion to 13 mat­ters be­fore it ar­rived at its de­ci­sion.

“We had a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty as an ex­ec­u­tive to pro­tect all our bands,” Ram­sey-Moore said.

She said Ex­o­dus pro­vid­ed as ev­i­dence the con­tents of a What­sApp group chat among the large Panora­ma bands, where the ma­jor­i­ty of fi­nal­ists said they were in favour of Ex­o­dus be­ing al­lowed to play Sa­van­nah Grass.

“My un­der­stand­ing is that they were able to pro­duce ev­i­dence of a What­sApp chat group they have among large bands that the ma­jor­i­ty of the large bands in­to the fi­nals have no prob­lems with Ex­o­dus play­ing a new song and so based on that the judge would have giv­en them the op­por­tu­ni­ty to per­form,” she said.

“But the thing about it is that for us as an ex­ec­u­tive it is the reper­cus­sion with re­spect to all oth­er bands that are not spon­sored,” Ram­sey-Moore said.

Ram­sey-Morre said un­spon­sored bands will be at a dis­ad­van­tage fi­nan­cial­ly as they would be un­able to pay for a sec­ond arrange­ment.

She said a medi­um band arrange­ment cost about $60,0000.

“So whilst the large bands can af­ford it, what about the oth­er bands that are not spon­sored. Once you open up the flood gates that bands can change their songs then spon­sored bands will al­ways reign,” she said.

“I re­spect the judge’s de­ci­sion but at the end of the day I have a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty as a leader of Pan Trin­ba­go to pro­tect all bands and to look at it in a holis­tic man­ner and not just about large bands sup­port­ing a band so it will have its reper­cus­sions,” she said.