Diaz shuts down Pan Trinbago’s office
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PAN TRINBAGO president Keith Diaz has shut down operations at the head office in the face of, what he saw as, some dissident members of the central executive “doing as they pleased” without his knowledge.
At a press conference at the Queen’s Park Savannah yesterday, he said: “I had to do it for security reasons.”
Diaz said he called the conference to shed light on what was happening at the organisation.
Referring to a number of challenges he has been facing with the executive members, who he said had been privately meeting outside the headquarters, and the latest correspondence ending up in the hands of the Minister of Community Affairs, Culture and the Arts, Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, chairman of the National Carnival Commission (NCC), Colin Lucas, the organisation’s bankers, the media et al, Diaz said: “We have injured the image and scarred the association.”
As a result he wrote to secretary Richard Forteau earlier this week, asking him to desist from chairing any meetings or deeming them central executive meetings, reminding him that all those meetings must be presided over by the president, and telling him that with immediate effect, all correspondence on a Pan Trinbago letterhead leaving the office must be seen by him before despatch. However for the most part, he said, all these orders have been violated.
Diaz said after he fell ill last year and Forteau took over his duties, the problems began when he returned to work.
The latest was a letter to the association’s bankers telling them the president had no power to negotiate anything for Pan Trinbago, but the secretary did. Diaz said he collected the letter yesterday and is responding to it.
He said similar letters have been sent to the line minister and the NCC chair, which he has since addressed.
On the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) Diaz called for April 17, he said he did so according to the constitution of Pan Trinbago.
“Any time financial members want such a meeting. and once 60 per cent have signed a petition wanting it, I have to deal with it. The petition is supposed to go to the secretary. but such a meeting can be called by the president. And this was done according to Section 4b of the constitution. I complied with the request by members.”
Diaz said 137 bands were financial members and registered for the national Panorama competitions this year: 53 single-pan bands, 43 small, 25 medium and 16 large bands.
With 120 bands signing the petition, Diaz said it made the document more than legal.
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What's the name of this movie BIG SHOT CALLER???
This is the same guy who as head of the executive invited Bertram Kellman to receive and award on Panorama night and blamed other executives when 'Birch' name was not called to receive the award.
Public disrespect of world-renowned tuner Bertram Kellman needs a public apology from Pan Trinbago’s executive.
Posted by Aquil on February 16, 2018 at 10:41pm in Uncategorized
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Pan Trinbago can't decide if it's CULTURAL Organization or a BUSINESS operation. In business decisions are made according to policy in a timely manner where the MISSION is critical to its operations .
Structure of Organisation:- Suggested a-z+ solutions for Pan Trinbago.
Posted by Aquil on May 13, 2017 at 4:33pm in News
https://whensteeltalks.ning.com/forum/topics/structure-of-organisati...
What would happen if these guys had to run a mission-critical operation 24/7, 365 days a year???
Trinis LOVE to spin TOP in MUD
Erica Williams daughter of the Father of the Nation
The BLIND continues LEADING the BLIND...
Good move by THE RIGHT HONOURABLE KEITH DIAZ. We hold the meeting on TUESDAY without the BIG THREE TRAITORS and we appoint an INTERIM EXECUTIVE with THE RIGHT HONOURABLE still seated as PRESIDENT.
This is as good a time as any to start THE AQUIL ARRINDELL FOR PRESIDENT CAMPAIGN!!!
Allyuh really ent like Aquil nah?!!...
merry tones tell them fellas if they want me to remain alive till 2020 leave me out of the president thing.....lol
Aqyil
Does Rolly Polly have the legal right to remove the other gangstas?
bugs
no, only the membership can do that
Will there be a Panorama 2019?
Can Pan in Trinidad and Tobago survive with out Panorama?
bugs
The GREATEST POLITICIAN IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!! KEITH DIAZ!!!
Yet he didn't see the D'Photo coming. And now he has more knives in his back than Julius Caesar.
boo, hoo, boo, hoo
bugs