When you have people like RUSSELL PROVIDENCE and LAWFORD DUPRES and GILLIAN BISHOP and AINSWORTH MOHAMMED sitting outside THE EXECUTIVE OF PAN TRINBAGO ... and you have people like ...

THE TREASURER and THE ERO and THE VEE PEE and THE PRESIDENT running that "WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN" -- could you really expect PAN TO PROGRESS.

After reading THAT PASSAGE that I stole from RUSSELL PROVIDENCE about FIVE TIMES -- I AM DEPRESSED. Bec

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A SHORTAGE of GOOD TUNERS and QUALITY PANS in THE MECCA?

Richard Forteau said that there were about 210 STEELBANDS in THE MECCA. BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE came in at 180 STEELBANDS. And then you have all the SCHOOL STEELBANDS followed by the EXPORT MARKET for STEELPANS.

BIG DEMAND FOR PANS!!! But do we have EN

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EARL RICHARDS: REAL BACCHANAL COMING BOY!!! People calling me from NORTH and SOUTH begging me NOT TO PUBLISH!!!

Earl  Richards: As yuh realize by now that EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP ... I have about 20 emails in my INBOX telling me "CLAUDE AH WANT YUH TO SAY THIS; AND CLAUDE AH WANT YUH TO SAY THAT!!!"

But as yuh REALIZE BY NOW -- I have my OWN DISCRETION!!! (In

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GREGORY LINDSAY: PAN TRINBAGO SHOULD SIT BEFORE A JSC!!!

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[PAN TRINBAGO MAKE THE GUARDIAN EDITORIAL] "Steelpan’s continuing pain"

Monday November 18, 2019

TRINIDAD GUARDIAN

"Just why the re­port was left to gath­er dust by the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment need­ed to be ex­plained. It should not have been that year af­ter year, tax­pay­ers were forced to cough up mil

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I am quite willing to go down THE ROAD that MR. GERARD CLARKE and MR. GEORGE RAMPERSAD were trying to lead me -- but I want them to read this article FIRST (Session Notes: Recording Steel Drums)

Session Notes: Recording Steel Drums

"Recording Steel Drums: Our engineer rises to the unfamiliar challenge of capturing a loud steel band in their octagonal rehearsal building."

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EARL RICHARDS: I want to apologize to you for ENCOURAGING YOU to stay on THIS FORUM and now we end up with all THIS BACCHANAL

Anyway, Next Month AQUIL opening the RECORDING STUDIO down in SOUTH. And you and me go have to produce a NICE CALYPSO. We eh paying NO BIG PRICE for use of the STUDIO -- yuh know what ah mean.

So keep yuh mind on the CALYPSO THING in the middle of al

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Missing invoices, no formal contracts (PAN IN PAIN PART 2)

November 17, 2019

Trinidad Guardian

"Close to $ 4 mil­lion was paid out by Pan Trin­ba­go to FCL Fi­nan­cial Ltd and its CEO Daniel Lam­bert over a three-year pe­ri­od with bare­ly any pa­per trail found by au­di­tors to jus­ti­fy these mam­moth pay­

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I was looking at an INTERVIEW on CNN tonight and the INTERVIEWEE said: CHANGE ALWAYS COMES FROM THE OUTSIDE!!!

Now, I don't know if I AGREE or DISAGREE with that statement.

RUSSELL PROVIDENCE is the RESIDENT PHILOSOPHER on THIS FORUM because he has READ A MILLION BOOKS and MADE HIS PAN WAY AROUND THE WORLD -- MANY TIMES OVER. So I do not want to get into NO P

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EARL RICHARDS: I have some GOOD NEWS for you!!! I have just appointed you PRESIDENT of UPPI!!!

Earl: I just formed a NEW VIRTUAL COMPANY called UPPI (UNITED PAN PRESS INTERNATIONAL) and I have appointed you PRESIDENT!!!

Now, the purpose of THIS COMPANY is to REPORT PAN NEWS to THE WORLD and keep the WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN HONEST.

I was th

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Ingrid Blackwood-Belle: Please come back and spend some time with us on THIS FORUM -- I have so much news for you!!!

Ingrid: We are missing you, girl!!! We need your participation with all the DRAMA surrounding BEVERLEY and the AUDIT REPORT and the VEE PEE SCANDAL and the PAN FACTORY SHUT DOWN and the SINGLE PAN out of season PANORAMA.

Earl Richards trying to MIND

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Well OIL STARTING to flow in GUYANA from NEXT MONTH and PAN IN GUYANA is very well positioned to play a GLOBAL ROLE ...

The Liza Destiny FPSO has been in position since August and the FIRST OIL date has been moved up to DECEMBER -- weather permitting --  with the expectation that production will hit 120,000 barrels per day by March of 2020. And then OIL that glitters

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Can BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE save the NATIONAL ECONOMY with her ALL YEAR PANORAMA PLAN?

Kaieteur News

October 29, 2019

"For 2019, the International Monetary Fund is projecting zero percent growth for the nation [TRINIDAD & TOBAGO], which has been in the petroleum industry for over 100 years.

A2 Global Risk, an international security ris

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MARCUS ASH: Yuh president getting SO MUCH LICKS -- yuh better come on THIS FORUM and defend THE LADY, eh!!!

Marcus Ash: How could you have encouraged THE PRESIDENT to hide the FORENSIC REPORT in PLYMOUTH BACK BAY and not expect anybody to find it?

And now that it is OUT IN THE OPEN -- you are not even STEPPING UP to save face for THE LADY.

Come on, man!!!

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GEORGE RAMPERSAD speaks on BEHALF OF PAN PLAYERS ...

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Time to pay the piper

Time to pay the piper

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A TOBAGO STORY ...

How many of all these MEDIUM BANDS FINALS IN TOBAGO Pan Lovers from TRINIDAD could say that they LIVED in TOBAGO and UNDERSTAND THE TOBAGO MENTALITY?

Allyuh know that I LOVE CALYPSO: So RAISE YUH HAND IF YUH WANT TO JAM!!!

Now, I lived in TOBAGO for

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EARL RICHARDS: Now that you have seen the cards UNFOLD in the TT MEDIA, you can better understand my ambivalence with GREGORY LINDSAY

Earl: Over the last decade, GREGORY LINDSAY worked really hard (on the ground) to bring INTEGRITY to the PAN TRINBAGO ADMINISTRATION. So I have the UTMOST RESPECT for the man.

In the last few weeks, the man was entrusted with a sacred duty to report

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DOCTOR deLIGHT and Cecil Hinkson and Earl Richards and Gregory Lindsay and Bertel Gittens and WHENSTEELTALKS and Marcus Ash will be SURPRISED -- but I am going to sing some PRAISES to BEVERLEY ...

(... I meant to add in the RAMSEY-MOORE but I ran out of space -- you have to be a regular poster on THE FORUM to understand that little QUIRK.)

So after the FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE, these are the HIGHLIGHTS (POSITIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS) of the BEVERLEY-LE

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Long live the RE-EVOLUTION at Pan Trinbago ... only TWO SOLDIERS left in the OPPOSITION!!!!

Well BEVERLEY win over EVERYBODY to the NO TRANSPARENCY side of the PAN TRINBAGO RIVER BANK.

And is only TWO MEN left to fight for the RE-EVOLUTION at Pan Trinbago.

DEM CIP MEN really LEAD ME and MEH REVOLUTIONARY PARDNER ASTRAY!!!

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