KEEPING IT REAL: What BIG SET AH SKILLS does it really take to RUN PANTRINBAGO? All they do is RUN PANORAMA and wait for GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS which they STEAL!!!

[Claude Gonzales]

PANTRINBAGO has proven that THEY COULD RUN PANORAMA. So it does not matter who is PRESIDENT, the human resources and experience is in place to have a SUCCESSFUL PANORAMA. After that THE EXECUTIVE sits around in the office all year (ah sure they have ah pack ah cards dey does have to resort to to kill time) and waits for the NEXT PANORAMA.

How much skills does it take for 10 BIG MEN to sit around all day in the office and wait for some FOREIGN ENTITY to call and ask for a LOCAL STEELBAND to come and perform in their country?

Now and again they put on a LITTLE SHOW in some part of the country. And, again, that is something they know how to do if they feel like doing it.

So why does THE PRESIDENT need to have some CEO-type CV (if yuh ever run ah steelband or participate in running a steelband -- that is yuh Curriculum Vitae right there) or RESUME?

We have to come off the MIMIC MEN head and start accepting ourselves for who we are. (Which reminds me of how KENDALL WILLIAMS play a CALYPSO in CALYPSO in a PANORAMA -- congrats to him!!!)

Of course, there is ANOTHER VERSION (a progressive vision of PAN TRINBAGO with a GLOBAL VIEW) that a few people are dreaming of. But now we are talking REAL CV and REAL RESUME and PAN TRINBAGO eh reach dey yet because the PAN FRATERNITY will have to go outside its SPHERE OF INFLUENCE to find MEN with that level of TALENT AND SKILL -- and like the ARTIST LADY inferred ... we are TWO FUTURE GENERATIONS removed from THAT REALITY.

So if the PAN PEOPLE like KEITH BYER -- I say VOTE FOR KEITH BYER because in the famous last words of HILLARY CLINTON: What difference does it make?

[Claude Gonzales]

Bring Back Owen Serrette?

Patrick Arnold criticize that man so bad and look where we end up from then to now!!!

[odw]

For Pan to survive beyond PANORAMA, QUALITY LEADERSHIP Is NEEDED.

Who today is willing to SERVE as PRESIDENT of  PANTRINBAGO in a  voluntary capacity?

CHARACTER counts, not whats in it for ME.

So why does THE PRESIDENT need to have some CEO-type CV (if yuh ever run ah steelband or participate in running a steelband -- that is yuh Curriculum Vitae right there) or RESUME?

Celebrating an outcast Owen Serrette
by Pe­ter Ray Blood
Mon Sep 19 2016

The for­ma­tion of Pan­vesco and the in­tro­duc­tion of the Pa­n­yard De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme stand out as just two of many suc­cess sto­ries of Ser­rette's stew­ard­ship. It was dur­ing his tenure at the helm of Pan Trin­ba­go that the busi­ness sec­tor was said to be "most pan friend­ly," seen as a de­c­la­ra­tion of its con­fi­dence in the na­tion­al steel­band or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Said Ser­rette: "Cor­po­rate spon­sors seemed more ap­pre­cia­tive of work done and part­ner­ships were de­vel­oped in host­ing events and pro­vid­ing fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to steel­bands."

Pro­grammes ini­ti­at­ed un­der Ser­rette's stew­ard­ship which pro­vid­ed spon­sor­ship to the steel­band fra­ter­ni­ty in­clud­ed the Na­tion­al Ju­nior Panora­ma and Na­tion­al Ju­nior Steel­band Mu­sic Fes­ti­val com­pe­ti­tions; Pan on the Road com­pe­ti­tions; Ari­ma Panora­ma; Car­ni­val Mon­day Night Steel­band Ex­plo­sion; Bor­ough of Point Fortin Pan on the Move; Pan Chut­ney; Pan Ra­ma­jay; Hin­di Foun­da­tion's Steel­band com­pe­ti­tion; The Pan­man's Ball; Steel­band Week and many more.

Ser­rette ini­ti­at­ed mu­sic lit­er­a­cy for pan mu­si­cians at UWI, no doubt in­spired to do so hav­ing be­ing a mem­ber of the UWI steel­band in Mona, Ja­maica in 1973.

He al­so in­sti­tut­ed train­ing in man­age­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tion for young man­agers of mem­ber steel­bands. He in­sist­ed, and still in­sists, that pan mu­si­cians be­come mu­si­cal­ly lit­er­ate and be re­ferred as "mu­si­cians," and not pan­men.

As pres­i­dent of Pan Trin­ba­go, in or­der to in­ter­na­tion­alise the or­gan­i­sa­tion, Owen Ser­rette es­tab­lished Pan Trin­ba­go chap­ters in Cana­da, New York and Ari­zona, and formed al­liances with Caribbean steel­band or­gan­i­sa­tions.

An amaz­ing caveat of Ser­rette's stint as pres­i­dent is that he served strict­ly in a vol­un­tary ca­pac­i­ty. "At no time dur­ing the years I spent as pres­i­dent of Pan Trin­ba­go did I re­ceive a salary," he re­vealed. http://www.guardian.co.tt/article-6.2.358152.937269e198