Darren Sheppard SILENCE THE CIP so I understand how OSWALD and GREGORY clam up. Ah tell AQUIL that THE CIP was not worth A RED CENT, politically. The man never believe me.

But ah doh understand how BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE eh out there campaigning like she mad. She promised to be a "TRANSFORMATIVE" PRESIDENT taking that word from and Ex-American President who was described as "TRANSFORMATIONAL"  -- of course, today, most people DON'T LIKE what AMERICA has been transformed BACK TO. But that is a different story -- and we could dismiss BEVERLEY as being a serious challenger. No woman from Tobago eh go be selected as no PAN TRINBAGO PRESIDENT for the next one or two generations. (Ah steal that "next one or two generations" line from a distinguished Trinidad Artist.)

Ah doh know about the PHASE II Manager planning to run PHASE II and PAN TRINBAGO at the same time. That issue should come out in THE DEBATES.

Serrette might make a run but we eh hearing nothing from him at all since the big MEDIA TOUR.

Gerard Mendez!!! Well he want to be PRESIDENT real bad. So I am sure that he is going to make a big run to the FINISH LINE.

It will not surprise me if KEITH DIAZ finds a reason or strategy to HOLD ON TO POWER through the 2019 PANORAMA. Money ran scarce during the last PANORAMA CYCLE and he needs one more dip in the GOLDEN POND to walk out with DECENT CHUNK OF CHANGE!!!

People calling Keith Byer name -- but I don't see him as a serious contender.

And after SHEPPARD threaten to LOCK UP AQUIL FOR SLANDER and send him down to CARRERA for a 3 to 5 stretch -- ah sure AQUIL EH GOING AND RUN.

That leaves us with THE INCUMBENT!!! I am 100 PERCENT SURE that RICHARD FORTEAU and DARREN SHEPPARD and MICHAEL JOSEPH will find a way to MAINTAIN CONTROL OF PAN TRINBAGO. Their best strategy would be to dispute the LEGALITY of certain nominations they deem UNQUALIFIED. Then they could get into another COURT SQUABBLE and force the elections to be postponed until AFTER PANORAMA. That is the most likely SCENARIO.

So by the time PANORAMA 2019 is over and the COURT ACTION pick back up about ONE YEAR FROM NOW -- we back into ELECTION CYCLE MODE and looking at an ACTUAL ELECTION in October of 2019.

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  • Ah man call me from Trinidad this morning and explain to me why everything so quiet in this ELECTION RACE. Now I doh know if what the man say is true because I am NOT IN THE MIX down there like meh pardner GREGORY LINDSAY. But the man tell me that he read this WST topic and he want to explain to me what phase the campaign for president reach.

    He call it the BAD TALK PHASE. The candidates are APPEARING TO BE SILENT ON THE SURFACE -- he said.

    But WHAT LIES BENEATH are secret campaigns and deal making and promises of jobs to "campaign" workers if they would go around Town and Country BAD TALKING and SMEARING the reputations of FELLOW CANDIDATES.

    Putin and the RUSSIANS eh have nothing on these PAN TRINBAGO CANDIDATES -- except that dey (The Russians) does use HI-TECH we candidates using LOW-TECH.

    To put it bluntly: Everybody cutting up everybody else in the hope of landing the GRAND PRIZE of PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO where you could steal all the money you want and the LINE MINISTER who hands over 20 to 30 Million Dollars to you (THE PRESIDENT) annually to spend as you please (and when the AUDITOR finds millions unaccounted for -- they called it "ALLEGED THEFT" and not REAL THEFT) and tells the public that she has ZERO JURISDICTION on how the PRESIDENT SPENDS THE MONEY -- man, I will BAD TALK meh MOTHER to GET A JOB LIKE THAT.

    So ah have to believe that what the man CALL ME and TELL ME ... IS THE TRUTH!!!

    • Gregory: SHEPPARD have yuh so TOOTOOLBAY you cannot even put up a retrievable link to defend yourself.

      What kinda REVOLUTIONARY you is, PARDNER?

      And ah educated man like you doh have to resort to no CRYPTIC POSTS as yuh like to do. Look at yuh pardner AQUIL who does be writing dem LONG LONG POSTINGS and he eh HALF AS BRIGHT AS YOU.

      Come on man and tell us WHAT'S GOING ON?

  • So by the time PANORAMA 2019 is over and the COURT ACTION pick back up about ONE YEAR FROM NOW -- we back into ELECTION CYCLE MODE and looking at an ACTUAL ELECTION in October of 2019.

    Darren Sheppard SILENCE THE CIP so I understand how OSWALD and GREGORY clam up. Ah tell AQUIL that THE CIP was not worth A RED CENT, politically. The man never believe me....


    Hmm...Claude Gonsalves,....remember this my friend.....WHERE HORSE DOES REACH..JACKASS DOES REACH TOO....ah go leave it right there.
    • Gregory you are correct, Jackass reach at the top in Pan Trinbago.

  • "Ah tell aquil that THE CIP was not worth A RED CENT, politically."

    Wasn't I the one, who kept saying the CIP was not worth a red cent, politically? 

  • It seems obvious to me that the issues addressed on forums such as these , though they stir the blood of us who contribute to this forum , are not sufficient to excite the pan players , and even the steelbands themselves , to demand change.

    Because , when it is all said and done , what changes are we talking about ?

    Because even if we replace the current executive with people of sterling quality , what then?

    So we get a more honest accounting of the handling of the government funds , which in reality , is a relatively small sum that is subject to change , due to economic conditions.

    So , maybe players get their (government funded ) stipend a little earlier , and Pan Trinbago's books look a little cleaner.

    So , after we've re-arranged the deck chairs on the Titanic,what then ?

    Do the new office holders have a plan ? A vision ?

    Are the steelbands going to continue being a "one trick pony" ?

    Or , are we waiting for a Chris Blackwell type to come to our salvation and show us how to package and promote the art-form?

    Do we see the future of the steelband as a party instrument , even providing a musical soundtrack for the carnival as it was intended, or do we still visualize steelbands playing classical music for old white people in the symphony halls of Europe?

    Is there a plan to make the steelband the centerpiece of Trinidad's Culture ?

    A plan to package the steelband and carnival and sell that package to the world using modern technology , instead of having the steelband as a sideshow to the carnival , playing music that only steelband diehards and aficionados can understand and appreciate ?

    In other words , in spite of all the fire and bluster, I see little for the average pan player , or interested citizen to get excited about , and therefore no real enthusiasm for change.

    And , it just may be that potential office seekers also sense that.

    • "no real enthusiasm for change"!!!

      END OF STORY!!!

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