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THIS BOY was very HGHLY RATED for a very long time -- but I DO NOT LIKE HIS STYLE OF PLAY!!! TOO TRINIDAD FOR ME!!!

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WE HAVE THE RHYTHMS and all the MUSICAL ROOTS -- we just lack THE SKILLS to PRODUCE IT for THE GLOBAL MARKET

THE ROOTS of OUR MUSIC are used in a MILLION WAYS by MUSICIANS around THE WORLD. Starting with THE ANDREW SISTERS and RUM AND COCA COLA and continuing on for decades up to today.

But OUR PRODUCERS never PRODUCE THE VERSIONS that make all the MONEY ON

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EVERY PR STUNT that BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE has tried has BACKFIRED ON HER showing her AMATEURISM for the JOB

First she fired the PRO to show how much power she had, but seven months have gone by and she has failed to replace the PRO -- that shows INCOMPETENCE (and racism?).

Then she decided to have an ALL NIGHT PANORAMA into JOUR OUVERT and that met with su

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Well my FIRST TWO AGENDAS on THIS FORUM have been "RESOLVED" -- so I am ready to move on to NEW GROUND!!!

I did not really bring closure to my first two primary agendas -- but I will take credit for bringing AWARENESS to the issues.

And given the MEXICAN FIRING SQUAD MENTALITY of the STEELBAND AUTHORITY in TRINIDAD, the most I could hope to accomplish wi

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Ah done have BRASS BANDS waiting in HOLLAND and BRAZIL for the TRINIDAD PAN STAR to use as BACK UP ... allyuh really doh understand this GLOBALIZING PAN TING!!!

And then I am taking the TRINIDAD PAN STAR all the way down to TONGA!!!

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Well I have to give ALVIN DANIEL some high marks for THESE LYRICS. It could be the MOST TOUCHING CALYPSO in MY LIFE

I did not like the MUSICAL INTRO and I did not like Denyse Plummer singing that song with her NASAL TONE. But the depth of social commentary that he captured in this calypso and THE RELEASE that resolved the story line -- I am not sure that I could f

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I wish I had DIPLOMATIC SKILLS like GREGORY LINDSAY. And I wish that I could throw away my POLEMIC PEN and write a beautiful and visionary passage like this one that GREGORY WRITE!!!

As a general rule in my life, ah doh jealous NOBODY. But when ah read this passage below written by GREGORY LINDSAY, ah feel jealous that I could not encapsulate my GLOBAL VISION for PAN with the level of literary expertise (and GLOBAL PROJECTION) th

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Mr. Merrytonestothebone: Right now all meh nerves just ah jumpin' with this series starting tomorrow and these BAY AREA radio stations just killing me with talk about HOW GOOD THE RAPTORS ARE ......

... so please don't make things worse for me.

I have said 1000 times on THIS FORUM that the day that I am driving down the road switching channels on the radio (and with SIRIUS ROAD now -- boy in PLENTY PLENTY SWITCHING GOING ON) and I hear a piece o

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CECIL HINKSON: Ah feeling sorry for you, boy!!! This PAN TING turn on you like a WAYWARD WIFE!!!

All yuh HOPE!!! Allyuh yuh EFFORT!!! All yuh DREAMS!!!

And the whole thing turn OLE MAS with a set of corruption, maladministration, and now SECRECY!!!

Ah hope yuh have some LONG GENES to survive the NEXT THREE YEARS (two and a half) and then you sti

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MARCUS ASH: Almost three months after Panorama and no word on whether it was profitable or not (Players were promised a stipend if it was successful) ...

... Months after election and no word on the Forensic Report. Months later and no word on why the PRO resigned. Months after they paid for Diaz trip to Clifford Alexis funeral no explanation. So much for Progress and Transparency. Now we have a PR ja

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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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