To the Prime Minister & Government of Trinidad & Tobago. without prejudice We, the Steelpan Community of the world are calling on you to reverse your position taken against the Pan Community of Trinidad & Tobago for the 2011 Panorama. Your election promises offered to give $2million TT to the winning band and a couple weeks ago your cabinet voted to remove $200. TT from $1000.TT given to all Pan players for the preliminary round of Panorama for the past three years. The Math. was very simple for the world Pan Community to see. You offered $2miilion, but the Pan was already getting $1miilon...so you really offered $1million. You took away $200 from 10,000 pan players which is equivalent to ( 200X 10,000) = $2million. In a nutshell. You are offering $1million in one hand and taking away $2million in the other hand, The math shows that you are taking away $1million from the Pan Community in 2011. We are simply calling on your government to reverse this policy of taking away the $200, from the people who needs it the most. The people who play in the Preliminary round of Panorama are the hard working, mostly youths and mostly female pan players of Trinidad & Tobago. We trust you will do the right thing and correct this situation. The following signatures are from nationals in the diaspora with the rest of the world who have adopted the Steelpan and also the local Pan Community of Trinidad & Tobago.