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CDB's director: TT MUST DIVERSIFY ... and he recommends OUR MUSIC among other things!!!

Guardian June 2, 2019

"Ram said T&T was one of the most cre­ative places in the world, it’s Car­ni­val and mu­sic were world-renowned, and was an area the coun­try need­ed to con­sid­er how to cap­i­talise on and ex­port."

Dr. Ram adds to the "we so

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odw: You accidentally opened up a WHOLE CAN OF WORMS by responding to that ANISE HADEED VIDEO -- I sure hope that it goes in the RIGHT DIRECTION!!!

There are certain forces that have to come together if we are going get the TRACTION to help THE MECCA maintain its  GLOBAL PLACE in PAN.

IT'S COMPLEX!!!

But you put A KEY in a CRITICAL DOOR and HOPEFULLY you started SOMETHING BIG!!!

All the CHICKENS

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IMAGINE!!! IMAGINE!!! IMAGINE!!! Imagine if we had a LOCAL TALENT of the caliber and character of WILSON JEAN-BAPTISTE ...

And imagine if we had a PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE with ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS and GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF MARKETING PAN MUSIC.

And then imagine if we had HONEST DIPLOMATS around the world who loved the PAN CULTURE and wanted to promote it genuinely witho

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But ah find that BERTEL GITTENS and DENISE HERNANDEZ should make an effort to steer BEVERLEY in the RIGHT DIRECTION ...

BEVERLEY still have two and a half years to go as PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO -- and she is clearly out of her league. So if she is left to govern in this stagnant manner for the rest of her term -- is PAN PROGRESS IN THE MECCA that is going to pay the

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Right now there is ONE GLOBAL PAN STAR in the entire world and that is ANDY NARELL -- but I am convinced that there is room for others ...

For the record, I did not just wake up yesterday morning and see the WILSON JEAN-BAPTISTE PAN ACT for the first time and suddenly decide that I would like to see a PAN STAR taking THE PAN from concert hall to concert hall around THE GLOBE.

I have bee

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So if some BIG PROMOTER in EUROPE saw the WILSON JEAN-BAPTISTE VIDEO and he decided that he wanted an ACT like that to TOUR SOME CITIES in EUROPE ...

Which PAN PLAYER would you all select to do the tour?

Let us say that the EUROPEAN PROMOTER calls up PAN TRINBAGO and he asks BEVERLEY (The President of the WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN) to select ONE PAN PLAYER to perform in front of such a band and

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Well ah think that THE FORUM owe KENNY PHILLIPS and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE an APOLOGY ...

We falsely assumed that we were looking at the BACK OF THE CHEQUE when in fact the CHEQUE was in an ENVELOPE.

Now, it is not UNUSUAL to put a CHEQUE in an ENVELOPE when you are presenting it to someone. So there was no SLEIGHT OF HAND as we misconstr

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Ah doh want NOBODY on THIS FORUM criticizing AQUIL ARRINDELL and MARCUS ASH ... dem is still meh TWO PARDNERS!!!

Now, it is true that AQUIL ARRINDELL and THE CIP MOVEMENT turned out to be nothing less than opportunists. And AQUIL ARRINDELL is now like the BOLL WEEVIL -- looking for a POLITICAL HOME.

And it is true that given the TALENT and ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS

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I think that ALL 20,000 members of WHEN STEEL TALKS and all the other casual readers should go back and pull up the postings of MASAI HALL and KEVIN SCOON and read them ...

Those TWO MEN have some PROFOUND INSIGHTS into promoting PAN MUSIC GLOBALLY!!!

We are FALLING BEHIND and we need some kind of LEADERSHIP and VISION to get us back into THE GLOBAL GAME!!!

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ANDY NARELL was in NEW ORLEANS last night SHOWCASING PAN. Now everybody knows that I consider ANDY NARELL the GOD OF PAN. But at the same time I IS AH TRINI -- and I eh come on NO BOAT ...

I IS AH REAL REAL TRINI -- A FAR-RIGHT NATIONALIST TRINI!!

That means as much as I LOVE ANDY NARELL and rate him so highly, I would love to see A TRINIDADIAN representing PAN GLOBALLY -- and this is not the FIRST TIME that I have broached THIS  TOPIC

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Like BEVERLEY working TOBAGO OBEAH!!! She is such a DICTATOR she make the WHOLE PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE dress in BLACK to go to court and fight EXODUS yesterday!!!

Ah tell allyuh from the start that this NEVER SEE COME SEE WOMAN is just TOO OBSESSED WITH POWER. So any hope for any kind of PAN PROGRESS done dead and bury in the CEM-EE-TREE!!!

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Well, I am FEELING GOOD!!! For the FIRST TIME since I have been on THIS FORUM I have seen some light shine!!! Thanks to Wilson Jean-Baptiste and Gregory Lindsay!!!

And it all happened in the space of ONE WEEK after ALL THESE YEARS.

I have been calling for a GLOBAL PAN STAR with a WORLD CLASS COMMERCIAL PAN ACT for years on THIS FORUM but I never had AN EXAMPLE to demonstrate THE CONTENT that I was envisioning.

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What really drives me CRAZY is that when you go around all the PAN FORUMS all you could read about is PAN LOVERS discussing ways to take PAN back to the SIXTIES and SEVENTIES ...

THAT FIXATION could put me in an early grave because I just don't understand how rational people could dismiss TODAY and TOMORROW and try to wave a MAGIC WAND and take themselves back to the SIXTIES and SEVENTIES and bring back PAN ON THE ROAD.

Remem

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A MESSAGE TO BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE: Gregory Lindsay is the FIRST PAN PLAYER in Trinidad that I have ever seen figure out the GLOBAL PAN CHALLENGE!!!

Dear Beverley: I am suggesting that you switch DANE GULSTON out to the PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER post and appoint GREGORY LINDSAY the EXTERNAL RELATIONS OFFICER of PAN TRINBAGO.

GREGORY LINDSAY has THE GLOBAL VISION to take the PAN OUTSIDE -- he could

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I have NEVER SEEN MYSELF as part of the STEELPAN FAMILY as referenced by MR. KNOLLY SMITH ... but after reading that interview with MR. BOWEI and seeing the comment from KNOLLY -- AH READY FOR WAR!!!

First of all, let me say that I HATE THE WORD "STEELPAN" -- even to use in a quote.

Secondly, if CURRY did not make THAT THREE-POINTER at the same time that I was reading the MR. BOWEI interview -- I am sure that I would have GONE MAD.

To use a  SHAD

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"There lies the difference in what is commercial music and what is not. Calypso singers or Soca singers must learn the art of writing for the international music industry" -- SIDD TAYLOR!!!

Well SIDD just introduced a TOPIC on which I consider myself VERY WELL INFORMED.

Here is the problem: Much like MOVIE PRODUCTION, MUSIC PRODUCTION is a CRAP SHOOT!!! It is only after you release THE MOVIE or THE SONG that you find out if THE PUBLIC L

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The FIRST TIME I heard ANDY NARELL I was MESMERIZED! The FIRST TIME I heard JONATHAN SCALES I knew he was destined for PAN FAME! The FIRST TIME I heard ANISE HADEED I was intrigued! The FIRST TIME ...

... I heard MOLLEE CRAVEN I knew that MUSICIANS master THE PAN faster than PAN MEN in TRINIDAD.

And the FIRST TIME that I heard WILSON JEAN-BAPTISTE -- I knew that  HE UNDERSTOOD how to represent COMMERCIAL PAN MUSIC for GLOBAL ACCEPTANCE.

Well the

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Ah never see so much PAN TRINBAGO MEETING in meh life and nobody eh telling me what going on in DEM MEETINGS

It had a meeting on APRIL 14TH and ah next meeting on MAY 9TH and ah next meeting on MAY 21ST and ah next meeting on MAY 23RD and ah next meeting on MAY 28TH and now they having ah next meeting some time in JUNE.

And within PAN TRINBAGO they have mor

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Liberty's Tina Charles set to debut documentary on her father at Tribeca Film Festival

Rawlston Charles, an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago, promoted Calypso and Soca music to the world through his record store and his music label, Charlie's Records.

Tina Charles knows what it is like to be on the big stage.

Charles, after all, is

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EARL RICHARDS: Ah still fighting this battle to see if we could GLOBALIZE THIS PAN MUSIC!!!

Earl: Since HOUSTON loss yuh gone SILENT on me. But we still in the PAN PROGRESS THING TOGETHER so please come back and HELP ME.

At least come and play a NICE CALYPSO or something.

Earl: Yuh think DEM RAPTORS could come down from CANADA and say dey c

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