How come AQUIL ARRINDELL is the ONLY CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT who is taking HEAT on THIS FORUM? What about the LEADING CANDIDATE from TOBAGO?

We have to wait another 28 days for another meeting to set an election date. Then the candidates should be given at least 60 DAYS to CAMPAIGN. That puts us in JULY!!! Any kind of snafu or delay and we are looking at OCTOBER.

Don't even mention the th

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Ah drop meh GUARD for a minute thinking that the PAN TRINBAGO CRISIS might get resolved; but like things going from bad to worse!!!

The money get SO SCARE in the end, it was not enough to share. So dem men went to war with each other over the CRUMBS. Now is back to the COURTS and another three years of LITIGATION!!!

PAN PROGRESS on HOLD -- AGAIN!!! And is so much things that coul

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So GREGORY LINDSAY and AQUIL ARRINDELL and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and KEITH DIAZ are all on the same team now fighting FORTEAU?

Would you call that POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY or HYPOCRISY?

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AQUIL ARRINDELL: How yuh so SILENT NOW?

We support you for 16 months on this forum (I could have gone out and made TWO BABIES during that period) and now that the FIRE IS BLAZING you are SILENT on the FORUM.

If you want to be THE NEXT PRESIDENT you had better STATE YOUR CASE. Because GERAR

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Symphony of steel fundraises for IRIS

Carolyn Sacco

The St. Luke’s Steel Band brought the warmth of the Caribbean to an audience of 100 during a performance at Bethesda Lutheran Church on Sunday night.

The show, titled “A Symphony of Steel,” was the band’s second appearance at the chur

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So who got THE POWER: DIAZ or FORTEAU?

And now we are back to TALK about elections in OCTOBER. Both the NEW VISIONARIES and THE CIP made the same mistake of expecting a quick COUP. But the incumbents have no plan to walk away from that GOLDEN TROUGH!!!

Psychologically, I can feel KEITH DI

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All who think that FORTEAU and SHEPERD and PABLO walking away just so -- ah have NEWS for them!!!

Allyuh sitting down there thinking that BIG MEETING TUESDAY and after that EVERYTHING FIX!!!

WRONG!!! WRONG!!! WRONG!!!

Take one look and listen to that HIGH-PRICED SHEPERD and that dog eh giving up NO BONE just so. And FORTEAU is a PAN TRINBAGO LIFE

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Windrush Fallout - Former British High Commissioner Says Son Was Denied UK Passport Because He Was Born In T&T

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WE MUST ALL CONGRATULATE CLAUDE GONZALES, AQUILL ARRINDELL AND GREGORY LINDSAY!!

These three members of the WST pan family worked tirelessly to bring down the Keith Diaz executive of Pan Trinbago. Congratulations gentlemen on a job VERY WELL DONE!!! Now lets all work tirelessly to build a new and better Pan Trinbago we can be all

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merrytonestothebone: Bertel Gittens leave you out. Like you is ah COCKROACH or something LESS!!!

How much LOCALS ever come on THE FORUM and participate? Let me REASK: How much LOCALS who are active in STEELBAND PRODUCTION like you ever come on the forum and deal with THE ISSUES?

Ah tell yuh: This thing getting CURIOUSER and CURIOSER!!!

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Possible Ending for the Movie -- The PT Story

In this possible ending, The Aquil and the Dolly make it out alive. D'Photo, D'Sheppard, College Boy and Rolly Polly - well let's just say they experienced some serious difficulties.  And it does end up being a love story as Merrytones recommended. T

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Time to Blow Up Pan Trinbago and Start Over!

Folks are being dishonest here. No one who is actively connected to a band should be allowed to be in contention to lead any Pan association. There is an inherent conflict of interest with leadership being associated with a band.

There is only one or

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And where is DOCTOR DOLLY -- THE MINISTER OF CULTURE!!!

Man from PAN TRINBAGO coming on THIS FORUM and ADMITTING how dey TEEF all the PANORAMA MONEY. And you have a MINISTER OF CULTURE who is "KEEPING AN EYE" on the SKULLDUGGERY but NOT LIFTING A FINGER!!!

I know that she has SPIES on THE FORUM who report

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IMAGINE a JOB where the ONLY QUALIFICATION is to BELONG TO A STEELBAND. And in that job ...

... you are paid OVER THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS  A YEAR. Don't talk about ALLOWANCES on top of the SALARY. Then THE GOVERNMENT gives you around TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to stage ONE EVENT. And at that event you are free to steal HALF T

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I finally have to agree with MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE: What is Cockroach doing in Fowl business?

All ah dem fellahs is LONG TIME pardners!!! And EXPATS on THIS FORUM expecting CHANGE!!!

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CONCERNED INDIVIDUALS FOR POWER (CIP)

Well, so far, the GRAND PLAN of the REGIONAL HEADS is managing to CONFUFFLE some of the LESS POLITICALLY ASTUTE members of THE CIP and THE FORUM.

So I will hold my hand and let things play out!!!

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FORTEAU made his move and THE CIP is STUNNED!!!

PROTEST IS ONE THING!!! PROCESS IS ANOTHER THING!!!

Too bad it eh have no WORKING BOATS to TOBAGO -- or else ah woulda send THE CIP and BEVERLEY RAMSEY back to BACK BAY to PLANT PEAS and some GOOD CASSAVA!!!

For the first time ah hear KEITH DIAZ soun

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Once THE CIP takes over they have to RE-ESTABLISH some honest LINKS with the BUSINESS COMMUNITY!!!

They just cannot continue to depend so heavily on THE GOVERNMENT!!! Recession or no Recession there is a lot of MONEY floating around TRINIDAD that could be directed to the PAN MOVEMENT. They just have to re-establish credibility and remove the stain

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First * First - Pan in a Pop Tune.

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No 10 refuses Caribbean request to discuss children of Windrush

The Guardian - UK

British citizens threatened with deportation to countries they left as children and have not returned since

‘I’m here legally, but they’re asking me to prove I’m British’

 No 10 acknowledged that a request had been received from

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