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An Appreciation: Dr. Winston (Shadow) Bailey, Our Conscience By Roger Toussaint

"Indeed, Shadow kept the Trinbagonian Village alive. He was a constant reminder of our better values and kept our Conscience in check."

Roger Toussaint's remarks as delivered at a Tribute to Dr. Winston (Shadow) Bailey and Winston Scarborough, De Or

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Ah doh know why I think that I am the only MAN in the THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD who understands THIS CALYPSO (intrinsically)...

Yuh think BOOGSIE could come in the STATES and say he PLAY JAZZ ...

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Praise the living: Marcus Ash!!! The first legitimate administrator in the history of PAN TRINBAGO!!!

This man hit the ground running, bringing his vast administrative skills, business acumen, formal training and boundless energy to this executive, like no other has ever done before.

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BEVERLEY should let SANDRA AWAI (and DANE GULSTON) loose on CORPORATE TRINIDAD and let them come up with the $10 MILLION to pay the PAN PLAYERS!!!

Despite all the RECESSION and HARDSHIP talk that is going around, there is PLENTY MONEY floating around down there in the BUSINESS CIRCLES.

So BEVERLEY should take the shackles off Sandra Awai and send her out there to talk to (beg) CORPORATE TRINIDA

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LATINA taking control of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY: A peep into the future!!!

Young and in control? Walk right in and CALLING SHOTS!!!

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Putting convicts to work [to make PANS, too] a good move

"That the minister was able to get approval for his plan to use prison inmates to tear down the existing structure is a credit to his resourcefulness, as well as to the principle that decisive action is always possible in the midst of stultifying pro

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Well, People make all kinda promises and now they don't even have the SKILLS to call a post-election PRESS CONFERENCE and give the PAN WORLD a little update and MAN supposed to stay quiet!!!

Foreshadowing is an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future. ... When you want to let people know about an event that is yet to occur, you can use foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is used as a literary device to tease readers about plot

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Ah have ah YANKEE-TRINI joke for THIS FORUM ...

Through my eyes (and bugs will tell you that my eyes are defective from excessive concussions -- but still they are my eyes ... the only ones I have) I have always seen some striking resemblances between politics in AMERICA and politics in TRINIDAD.

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Ah have to join the LOYALISTS and congratulate BEVERLEY for all the PAN PROGRESS she has accomplished in the first four weeks!!!

Dupres could not do more! Keron Valentine could not do more! Amar could not do more! THE CIP could not do more (even with their A-Z manifesto).

With all the miracles Christ work -- I don't think that he could have done more.

Yet I hear some high leve

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Aquil Arrindell: After watching your CONCERT I think that you should form a PAN PERFORMANCE Music Production Company!!!

You could call the Company: L-I-V-E PAN Music Productions!!! And we doing four concerts a year. One in the East (April) and one in Central (August) and Your Repeat South Concert in South (November) and a Christmas Concert in Port-of-Spain in December

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I would like to "DEMAND" that WHEN STEEL TALKS or any one of the other BEVERLEY supporters on THIS FORUM post the KEITH SUBERO article from the EXPRESS today!!!

I read the ARTICLE and I think ALL THE BEVERLEY SUPPORTERS should read it -- VERY SLOWLY!!!

I did drop a line from it earlier today!!! But you all should seek it out (find it) and READ IT!!!

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The GLOBAL LEADER in the fabrication of STEELPANS

"A visit to Panyard Inc., one of the Kenmore neighborhood's burgeoning music businesses, is as much a lesson in the history of steel pan drums as a look inside the Akron company."

Kenmore firm a hit in steel drum industry

Can BEVERLEY set up a PAN FA

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Ah tell allyuh that dey KILLING EXPATS when dey go to TRINIDAD and allyuh doh believe me ...

I could write ah long story on this and the political motivation ... but this is a PNM FORUM!!!

Nicholson's husband said while he visits Trinidad occasionally, he does not look forward to his visits.

"I don’t feel afraid of these trips to Trinidad b

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So PAN TRINBAGO owe SAN CITY STEELBAND $40,000 (FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS) -- well BEVERLEY go have to pay that!!!

I doh want to hear nothing about changing the constitution and dem kinda abstract discussions. I want to hear when SAN CITY getting dey $40,000 or I want to hear that  FORTEAU and JOSEPH and DIAZ and SHEPPARD going to jail for  tiefing all the PAN PE

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So what position is AQUIL ARRINDELL trying to get in this NEW BEVERLEY ADMINISTRATION?

The man come on THIS FORUM kissing up to BEVERLEY hoping that she will throw him ah little bone or something and everybody praising the man for LOWERING HIS POLITICAL STANDARD like that.

I stand with DUPRES and AMAR and VALENTINE!!! The PAN MEN rejec

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Ah tell EVERYBODY that BEVERLEY is the WORST CHOICE for PAN PROGRESS -- and people get VEX with me!!!

Now, everybody quiet!!! And they doh have nothing to say (a little deserved redundancy)!!!

Orson Rogers and Bob Diaz and bugs (ah hate to give bugs credit) and mercer ramdoo and Martin Maitland and Wayne Cezair and odw and Boston Carnival Mike Smith

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So who is CARLON HAREWOOD -- The NEW VICE PRESIDENT ... I really need to find out about this man because with BEVERLEY back in TOBAGO half the time he go have to be running PAN TRINBAGO

Ah hope ah even have the RIGHT PICTURE of the MAN

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A little refresher course on ANTHONY WILLIAMS -- published 10 years ago!!!

Steelpan Innovator Extraordinaire

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Aquil Arrindell: You is my only hope left in this PAN THING; but yuh MANNISH and yuh doh want to take advice from a GLOBAL PAN VISIONARY!!!

Aquil: If you will only HUMBLE YUH EGO and take some advice from an EXPAT with a GLOBAL VISION FOR PAN -- yuh could reach REAL FAR.

The first thing that I want you to do is to POLISH UP your SOUTH CONCERT and TAKE IT TO THE EAST!!! And make sure that

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Earl Richards: Yuh well blow our chances. We was supposed to write a CALYPSO on "SHE WANT MORE IRON IN THE BAND" and yuh get slack and we missed the chance!!!

Earl Richards: I know that certain topics keep recurring -- with appropriate spacing -- every Carnival season. And I was quite sure that it was time for another "IRON" song -- and you was supposed to work out all the production details.

Now we loss w

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