Myths about the CONCERNED INDIVIUAL FOR PAN (C.I.P).
1. The C.I.P. trying to take over Pan Trinbago.
This has never been the agenda of the C.I.P. and still is not. Our agenda is to have the current executive answer for the failed state of our organization. We are demanding a general meeting where members of the organization can ask questions without prejudice. The members of Pan Trinbago deserve answers.
2. The C.I.P. is a political organisation.
This is not fact. The C.I.P will not be presenting a slate of any kind. However, if there are people who are active members of the C.I.P. and wish to run for election, it is their constitutional right to do so.
3. The C.I.P. is putting information in the public domain which is harmful to the organisation.
The C.I.P. is not responsible for any new information about Pan Trinbago that is currently in the public domain. The C.I.P. highlights the information brought to light by the TV6 investigative reports of Mark Bassant since January, which spoke about corrupt practices among executive members, which they have yet to responded to.
Any new information about Pan Trinbago was sent to the e mail addresses of Pan Trinbago’s member bands and not to the public. When Pan Trinbago member bands get the new information and upload it onto social media we are not to be held responsible.
4. The C.I.P.’s cause is just but they are going about it in the wrong way.
According to the constitution of Pan Trinbago, there is only one right way to force a meeting to get the answers for the questions we have been asking and this is the approach we have taken. Circulate a petition calling for the meeting and get sixty percent of the membership to sign.
Any interference by the executive or by the chairmen of any zones to hamper this process is a violation of our constitutional rights.
5. The C.I.P. is a separate group from Pan Trinbago.
The C.I.P. is not a separate group from Pan Trinbago. The C.I.P.is not an officially registered group because we are already members of a group called Pan Trinbago. The Pan Trinbago whose president is Mr. Keith Diaz and secretary is Mr. Richard Forteau. We are concerned members of Pan Trinbago who became fed up of the lies, manipulations and the greed of our organization’s executive members. We, the C.I.P., think it is time for complaining among ourselves to be over, so we have now taken the necessary action to put the control of the organization back into hands of the membership of Pan Trinbago.
Document of the Concerned Individuals for Pan
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What stupidness a big man like Mr. claude dose be talking boy! look how long ago the CIP published this. We did not present a slate. A mean, the CIP's members are people of integrity. I am offended and demanding an apology from Mr. claude.
2. The C.I.P. is a political organisation.
"This is not fact. The C.I.P will not be presenting a slate of any kind. However, if there are people who are active members of the C.I.P. and wish to run for election, it is their constitutional right to do so"
Mr. claude this was publish since may last year.....
like no one read this or what.
we stood by most of it.
and we are still standing there.
This group had all the momentum going until they agreed to that meeting with Diaz where he shut them down, now we'll have to wait for the elections and see the outcome.
Cecil: Yuh mean to say that you have all the details from the UPPM/CIP meeting where Diaz outsmart Gregory Lindsay and Dane and Oswald Alexander and you did not come on the forum and share those details with the rest of the forum.
But it eh too late!!! Ah still dying to hear what really went on in that meeting and how KEITH DIAZ (The world's greatest politician) made mince meat out of that UPPM CREW.
Dem fellahs was SO CLOSE TO SUCCESS and the POWER just went to dey head at the wrong time. And you expect these same fellahs to beat KEITH DIAZ in an election 18 months down the road and you willing to sit down and wait ah next 18 months hoping that dem fellahs beat KEITH DIAZ when you know that they have no chance against the GREATEST POLITICIAN IN THE WORLD.
Furthermore, the CIP has explicitly stated that they are NOT A POLITICAL GROUP -- so how are they going to win an election if you don't run for election. I could sit down thousands of miles away and tell you exactly who is pushing that misguided doctrine that the CIP is trying to impose upon PAN MEN. And I am 100% sure that it IS NOT GOING TO WORK.
Tell we the story about the meeting nah!!! Is only TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP nite and day on my TV. Ah want ah good LOCAL political story and you sitting down on it like you alone must have the facts and leave everybody else in the dark. Spill the beans, Cecil!!! Doh treat we so!!!
Mr. claude why you harassing my C.I.P. members. My roughest and toughest ground soldier Mr. Gregory Lindsay don't want nothing about fail. To the soldiers in the C.I.P. army that word dose not exists. Claude the longest rope have an end and the gangsters end would come as sure the sun rise in the east and set in the west.
Aquil: You do not understand this forum you know. All the people on this forum are of ONE MIND. And I refuse to let the WORLD THINK that ALL TRINIDADIANS -- THINK THE SAME!!! So I am the INDEPENDENT VOICE!!! And I hate to give bugs any credit for anything but he got an independent voice too. And he invented the term GANGSTA years ago to describe TEEFING KEITH. So the CIP is not OUTING PAN TRINBAGO. PAN TRINBAGO has been deemed CORRUPT on this forum long before all this recent exposure.
Now, me and Gregory is good good pardners!!! He is very respectful and makes his point without being hostile or abusive. He mocks me in a friendly tone and my read on him is that he is a REAL TRINI who understands give and take. Gregory is running with the BALL and all he is seeing is the goal line.
Actually, If I had to join any campaign for PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO -- I would join the GREGORY LINDAY FOR PRESIDENT CAMPAIGN.
I like this line from point number FIVE: "We are concerned members of Pan Trinbago who became fed up of the lies, manipulations and the greed of our organization’s executive members."
But between you and me (Aquil): Expats like Cecil and Bede and Glenroy don't have that many Eastern Sunrises and Western Sunsets left. So we need the PAN TRINBAGO REVOLUTION to happen RIGHT NOW!!!
Regarding POINT 3: Do you really think that Keith Diaz cares what the world or the Trinidad public thinks about him? As long as he is collecting his LESS THAN $30,000 a month plus perks and stealing the PANORAMA GATE RECEIPTS and HALF of the $30 Million from the PANORAMA ALLOCATION and FIFTY PERCENT of the MONEY DONATED BY SPONSORS -- he is a HAPPY MAN!!!
Aquil: If you want to hire a man to come on this forum every day and expose the crimes that KEITH DIAZ has committed against PAN MEN and the local and global STEELBAND MOVEMENT -- I am willing to take the job for the HEFTY FEE of ZERO DOLLARS per month and no telephone or desk or travel allowance or consulting fee for staging the PANORAMA!!!