Solo, with Harmonites. De Lima, with Blue Diamonds. The kind of strategic alliance that had developed between Kirpalani's and Pan Trinbago is a model that can well be replicated in various phases of the strategic plans that have been formulated for the Pan Company and the Pan Trinbago Development Fund. The Government will definitely be a partner in that alliance, if only by way of the special incentives which the Ministry of Finance will provide to participants in the programmes that we launch today. There are opportunities for strategic alliances in the research and development of manufacturing technology.
Similar opportunities exist in music education and training.
It is my view, however, that the greatest potential for Pan, as for any musical milieu, is in the management and marketing of artistes and their repertoire. We have only to look at the Bob Marley experience and the Bob Marley legacy. That, you will agree, is substantially more than mere pittance, for intellectual property and for any other property. The greatest value in music and entertainment is not the manufacture of the hardware. The greatest value is in intellectual property, in the creative assets.