Go nah…
Pan Trinbago executive. Nobody wants you but you insist you must stay.
Report on Emergency General Meeting
By Aquil Arrindell
First of all, there is no such thing as an Emergency General Meeting.
Secondly, the meeting did not have the proper number of days’ notice according to the constitution.
And thirdly, although the president had the right to call a meeting with his membership, the process is that he has to give the order to the secretary, who would then circulate the information, via letter signed by the secretary, to all bands.
Due to a lack of all of the above, the meeting was an illegal one. However, this type of meeting happened just as a few months ago. CIP members protested the meeting, disrupting its proceedings for almost an hour. When we were through, the executive, without a quorum, continued the meeting.
Mr Diaz sat at the head table alone this time. According to sources, because of; the overthrow of Mr. Diaz by his executive; the exorbitant money his executive members are paying themselves; the contracts and the secret deals they are making; they are now afraid to face the membership. They are conveniently using all of the above to now make this meeting illegal.
The meeting proceeded without them. Mr. Diaz revealed a number of things that the CIP members had told the membership over the last year and a half. Some of the more notable things he outlined were
- The payment to Mr. Shepherd was agreed to at a meeting that the president/ CEO did not chair. Which made all decisions illegal, therefore Mr. D. Shepherd should bring back pan people money.
ARTlCLE 9 - DUTIES OF OFFICERS
- CENTRAL EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
- THE PRESIDENT
- Shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Association and shall preside over all meetings of the Central Executive Committee and of the General Body.
- Shall sign minutes of all meetings of the Central Executive Committee and of the General Body after they have been duly confirmed by the respective members.
- THE VICE-PRESIDENT
- Shall act in the capacity of the President during the incapacity or absence of the President from the Republic.
Pan Trinbago has no vice president.
These articles are in the same constitution they want to use to justify why they should not have attended the last meeting.
- The sponsored plane tickets given to D. shepherd and the photo-lead executive by a popular airline and were then given to the regional officers as gifts. The chairmen and regional executive officers who attended the meeting, North, East, and Tobago, admitted to receiving them and giving them back. The president told the membership that the South executives did collect the tickets from D. shepherd and the Photo-led executive and did not give them back. None of the executive members from South were present. They were all absent, just like the Photo-led executive officers. So the South Central members were the only region that did not have representatives at such an important meeting. I wonder why?
- The letters by the Photo-led executive to the NCC and the Minister of Culture stated, in essence, that the executive, minus the president, is in charge now. As a result, the president received an embarrassing phone call from the Minster of Culture to inquire about the letters’ content. He also spoke of a meeting with the NCC, which the photo-led executive attended without him, and the chairman of NCC had to make enquiries about the president’s absence. All of these things are evidence that they are not only talking about a takeover, they are actually acting in such a manner.
- The meetings that are being held with the financial advisor in his office at Dundonald St. in the absence of the president. The president also alluded to decisions being made on Dundonald St. in collusion with the financial advisor. The photo-led executive would then go to the executive meetings at Pan Trinbago’s office on Park street to outvote Mr. Diaz on decisions.
Mr. Diaz admitted that because of these things and others, he would be stepping down. He suggested that we hold a special convention; change the date of elections to June and get rid of the entire executive. The members were thankful that he was now more or less on the same page with them but they do not think it would be wise to leave them there until June.
Members of the CIP presented the petition to Mr. Diaz and the membership. The members who did not sign the petition got the opportunity to sign and Mr. Diaz as well supported it. The petition is at head office. According to the constitution, a meeting should be called in 14 days.
- EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
- Without prejudice to the foregoing, an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Association shall be called by the President of the Central Executive Committee within fourteen (14) days after the delivery to the Secretary of the Association of a requisition for the same signed by not less than 60% of the financial membership of the General Body and stating the nature of the business to be discussed.
It is now important that all band leaders rally around the cause. At the next meeting we need a quorum of 105 bands. If we do not get that quorum, a continuation meeting will be called at a later date and the number of bands that show up at that meeting would be able to make decisions that are legally binding. However, time is of the essence. We do not want to give this lawless executive the opportunity to thief any more of our moneys. Therefore it is important to rally the troops and fix our organization by getting rid of these heartless crooks.
It is a shame that these six men, knowing that the pan men, the band leaders, staff of pan Trinbago, the government, the people of Trinidad and Tobago, the pan diaspora, and even the president of Pan Trinbago, do not want them in office. All for the love of money they are adamant they must stay. Shame on them all.
Document of Concerned Individuals for Pan
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There is a saying in the vernacular which qualifies the behavior demonstrated in the following illustration. can you quote it?
Claude
you like thing eh..... Listen eh....like my social scientist guru RP might say when ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise.
A wise and politically astute fellow who has College papers intimated to me recently...light conquers darkness as does knowledge conquer ignorance and truth defeats the lie......now that they have reached another fork in the road, whither they goest....
.I must say this though.....the Kingsmen had an opportunity much earlier to be the heroes of this plot...back when they attempt to displace the Emperor as NCC Commish.......quite a weaker attempt at mutiny...compared to this foot in mouth disease that they appear to be afflicted with.....along with sloth, greed, and the other known suspects...but...say what ..moving forward......better links with the International Diaspora; more Pan on de Road, PRO dealing propa with meh WST community....etc.
ah go leave it dere as ah tell meh pardna..Franklin Mayers Sr...I want what is best for the association.. I want.not for love of high elected office.....
Gregory: Me and you and Cecil Hinkson have a common agenda: We want to see PAN move forward LOCALLY and GLOBALLY!!! And we eh looking for NO POSITION.
Keep the UPDATES coming!!!
"At the next meeting we need a quorum of 105 bands. If we do not get that quorum, a continuation meeting will be called at a later date and the number of bands that show up at that meeting would be able to make decisions that are legally binding."
Here lies your problem, Aquil!!! You are not going to get 105 bands to show up in two weeks and FORTEAU will withhold his participation. So there will be a CONTINUATION MEETING!!! By which time YOUR TROOPS will be tired with the HOOPLA and stay home (having been out on two bogus outings). FORTEAU and his crew would have been sitting around strategizing and building momentum -- and they will invade the THIRD MEETING with FULL FORCE and POLITICAL PURPOSE.
Next thing yuh know: MAS DONE and ALL FALL DOWN FOR THE CIP. And all who was expecting BIG WUK in the NEW PAN TRINBAGO ADMINISTRATION -- abandon yuh!!!
Ah hope Beverley lucky enough to get ah BOAT THAT COULD FLOAT back to Tobago!!! Because Dane eh have no time for she then -- he gone and sign up with FORTEAU.
What the hell!!! If FORTEAU promise to give me the rights to produce a GREATEST PANORAMA HITS CD -- I even joining up with them.
What the hell!!! If FORTEAU promise to give me the rights to produce a GREATEST PANORAMA HITS CD -- I even joining up with them.
lol.
WEDNESDAY (Today) was the deadline to get the FINALIZED PETITION on the desk of the PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE (so said the newspapers) and the EXECUTIVE MEETING is supposed to take place in two weeks. There is always a FUTURE DATE that is never met like the FORENSIC AUDIT; so I am 100% sure that there is going to be NO EXECUTIVE MEETING in two weeks!!!
FORTEAU will see to that!!!
THE POLITICAL GAME is in FULL FLIGHT and since THE CIP is NOT INTO POLITICS -- FORTEAU WINS BY DEFAULT!!!
ah 100% you say...
i hope you not using that crack crystal ball to make those pronouncements again. i tell you already, come to trinidad, in the bamboo sell spare parts for everything.
Mr. Claude, you staring lil desperate.
you jumping all over the place. First is DiaZ till 2020 now is photo.
just admit it, them fellas gone through.
I telling you that months now, but like stick break in your ears.
I remember people say , "Aquil you wasting time with petition".
"Aquil you can move Diaz".
now Aquil "you cant move photo".
we will c.
this lil half indian boy love imposable challenges, so keep them coming. lol
they are adamant they must stay ... AND STAY they WILL!!!
RUSSELL PROVIDENCE is indeed one of the most knowledgeable and astute observers of the politics and psychology of PAN TRINBAGO. He come on this forum (out of the blue) and said that FORTEAU was the political brains behind PAN TRINBAGO. As the facts unfold today, this has become quite clear.
And what is equally clear, is that NOBODY is going to remove FORTEAU from that PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. If you read the passage above carefully, you can see all the LOOPHOLES aligned for FORTEAU to out maneuver THE CIP and KEITH DIAZ and stay in office as long as they like.
It's looking more and more that the only solution is to FIGHT to put KEITH DIAZ back in the driver's seat and keep him in power until 2020 ... and I listen to Aquil and Gregory and throw away meh god damn CRYSTAL BALL.