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It takes much more than being able to PLAY A PAN to become a GLOBAL AMBASSADOR for PAN -- SO MUCH MORE.

Of the 8000 PAN PLAYERS in TRINIDAD, I don' think any one of them could live up to the rigors and requirements of representing THE PAN GLOBALLY. And though the QUALIFICATIONS are not STATED, they are IMPLIED on a number of LEVELS.

An EXPAT from NEW Y

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BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE needs to learn how to TAKE IN FRONT before IN FRONT TAKE BEVERLEY ... Earl Richards and Cecil Hinkson need to give her some LESSONS ...

Yuh see, BEVERLEY grew up in a CULTURE OF SECRECY -- but that is NOT going to work in TRINIDAD. She thought that NOBODY did not have the AUDIT REPORT and she hiding her copy thinking that NOBODY will ever see it. Well, allyuh see WHAT HAPPEN.

And now

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Is it TRUE that BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE represents THE STEELBAND HIERARCHY and NOT the MEMBERSHIP?

I was reading a posting that said: "There must be an organization that represents the players before [Pan Benefits could accrue to THEM].

Now, from EVERYTHING I have read recently, BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE was representing the BEST INTERESTS of the PAN

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BUGS: You talking to THE RIGHT MAN. Aquil Arrindell is finishing up work on his RECORDING STUDIO down in the SOUTH ...

... and once he starts RECORDING some PAN MUSIC in 2020, I will make sure that he RUNS EVERYTHING (PAN MUSIC) by YOU before he releases. We taking things in WE OWN HANDS and we don't have to sit down and wait for PAN TRINBAGO.

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Allyuh ever read THE POSTINGS put up by BOB DIAZ? Real culture man -- FROM THE HEART!!!

That man is a REAL TRINIDADIAN and a LOVER and PROMOTER OF THE CULTURE.

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TWO CIP MEN (AQUIL ARRINDELL and GREGORY LINDSAY) kissing up to BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE to get to go to PANORAMA IN TOBAGO ...

DEM TWO FELLAHS use to be REAL MILITANT when KEITH DIAZ was in office -- now dey like MIDNIGHT IN THE CEMETERY.

Now Gregory Lindsay blaming THE LAST EXECUTIVE for the failure of THIS EXECUTIVE!!!

And Aquil Arrindell saying: Let's give them time to o

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At the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of THE BEV and TEAM REBUILD, I think that they should send an EMISSARY on THIS FORUM to do a little QUESTION and ANSWER about their PERFORMANCE after the FIRST YEAR ...

We all know that they have a FEW CRITICS on THIS FORUM.

(Ah still vex with MARCUS ASH, EH!!! Because he named RUSSELL PROVIDENCE the NUMBER ONE CRITIC OF PAN TRINBAGO -- ABOVE ME!!!)

Sometimes in life -- you just CANNOT WIN A HAND ... but I accept th

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CECIL HINKSON: Ah doh like how yuh running your STEELBAND MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS. Yuh think PAN is just about MUSIC THEORY?

Cecil: Yuh teaching all dem students to read and write music and  pass dey music exams -- all necessary and well and good.

But what about MUSIC PERFORMANCE like ANDY and JONATHAN? And all the DIPLOMATIC and SOCIAL and POLTICAL SKILLS that goes along

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Cecil Hinkson: Yuh well rile meh up with that ANDY NARELL conversation ...

Ah really thought that by now TRINIDAD would have produced a GLOBAL PAN STAR gracing stages around the world and producing best-selling CDs and getting music reviews here and there and appearing on talks shows in AMERICA and in a film in HOLLYWOOD an

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Allyuh know that they have a PAN MUSEUM in GUYANA (a "one-man" operation)?

Martin Maitland once said on THIS FORUM (echoing my sentiment) that you do not need TEN and TWELVE people on a BOARD or EXECUTIVE to get things accomplished. Small groups of TWO or THREE could get together and ACCOMPLISH A WHOLE LOT. But that is NOT

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Well ah hear that AQUIL ARRINDELL and GREGORY LINDSAY about to collect their APPEARANCE FEES -- so dem two fellahs more quiet than ever!!!

Dem two fellahs really lead me down the BRIAR PATCH calling themselves REVOLUTIONARIES and DEFENDERS of PAN PLAYERS. But once BEVERLEY win the ELECTION -- dem two fellahs went SILENT and looking for HANDOUTS FROM THE BEV.

But ah OLD MAN from TOBAGO j

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CECIL HINKSON: Come back and LIME, NAH!!! We don't need TRIVIA we need PROGRESSIVE IDEAS!!!

Cecil: More and more AMERICA taking over THIS PAN TING.

We have to get serious, BRO. And put some ideas in place or else THE MECCA will be in the NORTH.

Yuh want to wake up ONE DAY

And hear that  PAN COME from THE USA?

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Another MISGUIDED appointment by BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE: MARIE TOBY as LIAISON OFFICER to STEELBANDS. Look at the case of Aquil and SAN CITY STEEL and the $70,000 owed to them ...

Beverley pick the wrong LIAISON OFFICER and she pick the wrong VEE PEE and she pick the wrong ERO and she pick the wrong TREASURER and she FIRE the RIGHT PRO and leave the post empty for a year. So how on earth could she expect to have a PROGRESSIVE

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GREGORY LINDSAY: Serious Business!!! You have to ensure TRANSPARENCY at the AGM this month ...

Gregory:Remember all the promises of TRANSPARENCY by BEVERLEY before the last elections, right. So she needs to provide an INCOME and EXPENSE statement for November 2018 thru October 2019. PAN PLAYERS need to know how much money came in and how it w

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Steel Pan In Guyana – How It All Began

History Of Steel Pan In Guyana

"Steel pan has come a long way in Guyana. It has been in the country since in the 1950’s. Because of challenges such as cost and maintenance, the steel pan music was on a break for a while. However, in 2008, things were

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Yuh see CECIL HINKSON: A simple project like giving out 20 SCHOLARSHIPS -- and BEVERLEY manage to turn that into a NATIONAL SCANDAL and you want me to either STAY QUIET or HEAP PRAISE on her ...

Dem BEVERLEY SUPPORTERS just like these REPUBLICANS who are blindly supporting DONALD TRUMP to the PERIL of AMERICA -- PARTY FIRST ... COUNTRY SECOND.

While allyuh putting BEVERLEY FIRST -- PAN PROGRESS SECOND.

Look man, I am telling you that BEVERLE

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CECIL HINKSON: This MEDIUM SEPARATION might be a good thing; Two of them bands could set up couple BLOCOS in the CARNIVAL WEEK ...

Cecil: When the TOBAGO MEDIUM FINALS done, all dem MEDIUM TOWN BANDS FREE -- so they could organize a COUPLE BLOCOS between the TUESDAY and FRIDAY in sections of the city.

All the GLOBAL EXPAT TOURISTS already ON THE GROUND so they could draw some ni

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EARL RICHARDS: After all the HARD WORK that I did -- PAN TRINBAGO made RUSSELL PROVIDENCE ENEMY NUMBER ONE. I guess I have to TRY HARDER!!!

Earl: REAL CONCUSSION, PARDNAH!!!

The whole ah PAN TRINBAGO stop working and only reading RUSSELL POSTINGS. And they fraid dat man like LUCIFER.

Imagine, EARL, after all the years I spend on THIS FORUM trying to make PAN TRINBAGO a better organizario

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MARCUS ASH: I want you to send me an autographed picture of yourself -- a NICE ONE. So that when I have to defend you on THIS FORUM I can use an OFFICIAL PICTURE!!!

Marcus: In two years time you will be giving out 180 SCHOLARSHIPS every year and then NOBODY could say that you were "GEOCRIMINATING"!!!

Yeh man!!! Send me ah nice picture with a clear autograph where everybody could see your signature. And when the

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MERCER RAMDOO: Yuh see what ah tell yuh about the GUYANA SCENE and why we should try to HOOK UP with PAN IN GUYANA ...

A big geophysicist in TRINIDAD was surveying the scene from an OIL PRODUCTION PERSPECTIVE and this is what he had to say: "New multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions will pre­fer to in­vest in Guyana rather than T&T be­cause of poor reg­u­la­to­ry con­trol

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