by Michael L Joseph
PUBLIC Relations Officer
Pan Trinbago Inc
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “I’m looking for a calypso singer, because I believe I have a winner. If calypso staying true to form and speaking truth is the norm, there is no way they can say, this calypso is not the best calypso of the day.
“You see, my calypso is about Steel band, and how they mistreating the pan man and woman, and the organization [Pan Trinbago] representing them. The days when pan was an outcast, it seems like those days, we are yet to pass.
“Look at the deals being made with foreigners. They get free land, cheap labour, and pay no tax for decades. But the Steelpan, created right here in our land, successive governments can’t see or comprehend its power and the reason to extend to us the same concessions, so we could do the things that are necessary to fast track the Steelpan industry.”
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Those who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones....as highly elected office holders in this movement,.they ought to know better....but in reality as Winston Churchill once opined, "Power corrupts...and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Plenty plenty more shall be unfolding.....the evidence appears not to be circumstantial...every story have 3 sides...the defendant version, the appellant version and de God-awful truth...
I suppose that NCC Chairman & Accountant are watching; TT Customs & Excise watching, GORTT Ministers of Culture; Finance; and Foriegn Affairsand the Hon. Dr. PM also watching,...TTPS Fraud Squad, British Scotland Yard, and Interpol may also be watching....
.I will leave it right there for now...and continue to pray for and hold on tight to my beloved national instrument......coming from out of this dark time.,.into the light
No damage control going to help here, people knew what was going down years ago. Yuh could fool some pan people sometimes but yuh cannot fool all pan people all the time.
There's a saying in business "you learn more from your mistakes than your success." My guess is PT is a successful cultural organization thriving to be a business organization.
ODW:
What criteria are you using to deem this a successful cultural organization?
If you are using current embarrassment and shame as a measure of success, I agree — it is surely very successful.
TALK TO THEM MICHEAL, THEN GO TO THE HEAD OF THE CLASS....
There will come a time when matters relating to Pan Trinbago and the entire steel band movement will become positive and boring.
Like I said before, is we own and we don't know what the hell to do with it.
patrick, the ting is nothing being done for pan but men livin high on the hog, pan players are being disrespected, pan trinbago treat them like they chuppid and ain't know what goin on.
Was it "All Fools Day or All Souls Day"
Both, Cecil, both.
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