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Maybe it is time to REVAMP PAN TRINBAGO. You can't have a PRESIDENT making almost $30,000 a month plus free apartment and free car and free gas and free travel to TOBAGO while PAN MEN SUFFERING ...

What happen to the BIG PROMISE to turn PAN YARDS into CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE bringing financial independence to the STEELBANDS and WEALTH/PROSPERITY to all the PAN PLAYERS across the land.

Time for PAN PLAYERS to STAND UP AGAINST EXPLOITATION!!!

India willing to buy Guyana’s oil share at market value [EVERYBODY wants a piece of GUYANA; if they have the right MINISTER OF CULTURE -- They could lead the WORLD IN STEELBAND MUSIC]

GUYANA CHRONICLE November 13, 2020

“India is an energy-hungry nation and 85 per cent of our petroleum requirements are imported. So we would love to work with the Government of Guyana to import oil, if possible, from Guyana on a long-term basis, and

We have the E-PAN and the PHI PAN and the INDIGISOUND PAN SAMPLES and the PANKAT -- and still we have ZERO CREDIBLE MUSIC despite all these EXTENSIONS of THE PAN ...

... people does get vex WITH ME when I say that we have no GLOBAL PAN TALENT. But let ANDY NARELL or TRACY THORNTON or JOHNATHAN SCALES or VICTOR PROVOST or MOLLEE CRAVEN put some time and creativity into any one of these NEW TECHNOLOGIES and next th

WHEN STEEL TALKS: If you came to me and said that SOMEBODY offered you a 10% RETURN ON INVESTMENT on your MONEY -- what do I think, I would suggest that we take a VERY CLOSE LOOK at the INVESTMENT ...

... because in THE REAL WORLD a 10% ANNUAL RATE OF RETURN is very difficult to come by on a LEGAL INVESTMENT.

So when I see RUBADIRI VICTOR promising a 400% RATE OF RETURN over a FIVE MONTH PERIOD -- well, I CAN'T BUY THAT!!! Especially since it was

Steelband Songs Compilation

[So what is the NEW MINISTER OF CULTURE going to DO FOR PAN?] New Culture Minister Senator Randall Mitchell meets with Pan Trinbago Executive

Left to right (in group photo): Se

PAN HISTORY: Something to THINK ABOUT ...

Coolidge Air Force Base was an American military air base on the island of Antigua that operated from 1941 until 1948. It later reopened as Coolidge International Airport and is now known as V. C. Bird International Airport.

I am not going to EXPLAIN

PLENTY PLENTY TALK about HAVING A VIRTUAL CARNIVAL -- even LOSING KAMLA calling for one. Personally, I would love to see them GO FOR IT because I done know the OUTCOME ...

Back in the EIGHTIES (it could have been the NINETIES) they try that CLOSED CIRCUIT angle with THE CARNIVAL and they LOST SO MUCH MONEY they never attempted again.

But it could be a learning (and losing) experience for the LOCAL GENIUSES so I would l

Well the 2021 ELECTION CAMPAIGN is TRULY IN FULL SWING -- BEVERLEY sent an EMISSARY on WST to SING HER PRAISES and tell us ALL ABOUT PAN PROGRESS under HER ADMINISTRATION ... but I know better!!!

When I see them come on here and tell me how DEY GLOBALIZING PAN MUSIC and TRANSFORMING PAN TRINBAGO -- ah get so upset ah had to CHANGE MEH LOGO and make a SPECIAL CAP to remind me of THE MISREPRESENTATIONS. And I is ah man who doh wear cap!!!

It is

PAN TRINBAGO SOCIAL PROSPERITY FUND: MR. MARCUS ASH has made it very EASY for PAN LOVERS around the world to CONTRIBUTE to THIS CHARITBALE FUND!!!

THE HOLIDAYS are coming and THE TRINIDAD STEELBAND COMMUNITY needs your help. Go to the PAN TRINBAGO PROSPERITY FUND and make a CONTRIBUTION -- PLEASE!!!

SOCIAL PROSPERITY FUND LINK

THE STEEL PAN BUILDER

STEEL PAN BUILDER

Henvil (GUYANA) Coconut Farm taps vital Trinidad market!!! [Well yuh think yuh could go to GUYANA and say yuh have COCONUT?]

This one is a little TOO COMPLEX for THIS PNM FORUM TO GET -- but for HISTORICAL PURPOSES ... a man's go to do what a man's got to do!!!

RESPECT YUH CULTURE means stop STEALING ALL THE MILLIONS HANDED OVER BY THE PNM GOVERNMENT to the AFRO CULTURE LE

2018 was EASY WIN for BEVERLEY because she was going up against a HALF-WHITE MAN and PAN TRINBAGO is ah AFRO THING. But in 2021 she going up against 4 HARD BACK BLACK PAN MEN -- so she GOOSE DONE COOK

... make that 5 HARD BACK BLACK MEN because I joining DEM FELLAHS in the CAPACITY of MANAGER IN CHARGE OF PROPAGANDA AND STEELBAND ENLIGHTENMENT -- GOEBBELS eh have NOTHING ON ME.

CECIL and EARL appoint THE WOMAN head of PAN TRINBAGO to PROSPER PAN a

There was a recent interview on WHEN STEEL TALKS that may have led some readers astray -- and WST is very RIGID ABOUT PAN HISTORY, so I have to elucidate ...

... readers on THIS FORUM might have gotten the impression from a recent PAN TRINBAGO INTERVIEW that the FIRST STEELBAND at WOODBROOK SECONDARY was relatively recent. And that it was somehow inspired by someone who was PERSONALLY BLESSED BY GOD.

But

Almost TWO YEARS and NO FINANCIAL REPORT from BEVERLEY and this PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE ...

The Annual General Meeting shall be summoned by the President of the Central Executive Committee during the period September 1st to October 31st in each calendar year. The annual reports of the Auditor and of the President, Secretary and Treasurer of

BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE is the one who started this 24-MONTH CAMPAIGN TO RE-ELECTION (instead of focusing on PAN PROGRESS) ... now she is going to PAY THE PRICE!!!

Look, she wanted to WIN SO BAD that she come in town with BLINDERS ON and join forces with THREE OF THE BIGGEST SNAKES IN PAN -- JUST TO WIN.

How many times during THE LAST CAMPAIGN I warned that DEM OLD HARDBACK PAN MEN from town WILL LICK UP BEVERL

THE FUTURE OF RECORDED STEEL DRUM MUSIC: SYNTHESIZED PAN TONES!!! THE TRINIDAD PAN WORLD has to open its EYES and MIND

But even when we CONSTRUCT the PERFECT PAN TONE, you still have to learn to REPRESENT IT from the KEYBOARD.

OUR PAN SOLOISTS and THESE SYNTHESIZER PAN TONE DEVELOPERS all try to make THE PAN sound like a PIANO -- that KILLS the UNIQUE MUSICAL BEAUTY

Long before BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE announced her run for PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO, GERARD MENDEZ had his whole MANIFESTO MAPPED OUT and a dream to become PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO ...

But then BOOGSIE SHARPE and BERTEL GITTENS and CECIL HINKSON and EARL RICHARDS and a bunch of other BANDWAGON JUMPERS started pushing the WOMAN IS BOSS emotion and BEVERLEY started gaining momentum.

So -- with a keen political eye and his mind set on

For all the years I have posted on THIS FORUM, I have been a little concerned with MY excessive use of the word "so" -- but in the words of DAVID RUDDER: This is not the KINDA JAM ...

... where you STAND UP LIKE AH CHUPIDEE BEGGING FOR MERCY. Maybe on THE TRIVIAL SITE -- BUT NOT HERE!!!

Anyway -- POLITICS BEING IN MY SOUL -- I kept watching the CONFIRMATION HEARINGS ... and JUDGE AMY (probably one of the BRIGHTEST LEGAL MINDS in t

THE PAN CRITIC SPEAKS on SHARING THE WEALTH WITH PAN PLAYERS

Pan Critic

“BOUNCE Back”, steelbands have never “bounce” back financially since the creation of PanTrinbago! Steelband players’ health is a priority, I agree, but why weren’t their financial remuneration always a priority? One thing is certain the c