FORMER executive member of Pan Trinbago Keith Simpson told the Express that attorney Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj was supposed to file an injunction yesterday against Pan Trinbago on his behalf, preventing the organization's general elections from taking place on Sunday.
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I am a new warrior/defender to this movement and I shall continue being one of the new voices who would stand up for what I believe in, to stand up for truth, honesty, and justice for all members of the organisation. I am not afraid to challenge Pan Trinbago's leadership and shall continuously hope that my efforts at an attempt to revive that old warrior spirit of the ancestors of this great instrument, will continue to attempt to follow in the footsteps of the aforementioned "warriors"and make my voice be heard whenever there are slip ups, from the National Executive.
I have to admit that though the venue was improved, the seating arrangement for the meeting convention seating which did take most delegates by surprise; as change was again attempted to be implemented through instruction, albeit again without tact and any sense of emotional intelligence, as proper dissemination channels of communication from the top down to the Regional Chairmen in advance was absent it seems as the trend goes.
The acrimonious nature of the banter of commentary which ensued didn't allow time for the questions on the President's Report to be adopted; though considered as read..The President's vicious and vitriolic attacks on this When Steel Talks forum and all of its detractors got plenty of air time at the meeting. Measure that if you will against Trinidad Express Editor-in Chief, Omatie Lyder's Editorial on Bertie Marshall, that quoted the When Steel Talks forum is the most informed medium in the world of Pan.
Trevor Cooper's account of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on Sunday October 28, 2012 at the Capital Plaza summarizes the execution of the event, managed and chaired under the pretext of a circular from August 24, 2012 what The National Executive believed to be a Triennial Special Convention Meeting where Central Executive elections are held. The Secretary of the Association through the Chair, is seemingly having concussions from the High Court Order that all of the organization's electoral processes have been put on hold pending the judgment of the High Court on predetermined date of December 03, 2012.
These elected Central Committee officers are operating in a manner hell bent on exercising, it seems their imperial right in circumstances which I must say at best, is to create a cacophony of convulsions to corrupt salient Pan Trinbago constitutional clauses regarding Elections, by posting (within the 2012 Annual Reports booklet) an illegal notice of Triennial Regional Meetings of Pan Trinbago T.C. Inc.on November 28, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. at no locations identified.
This action I have been advised at best is ultra vires on Pan Trinbago's part and maybe construed by the Court in its current review on this matter; (1) at worst as an attempt to interfere with a judicial process governed by the supreme authority of the Constitution of the Laws of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; and (2) at best allowing the plaintiffs in this litigation, to build a case of legal ammunition of illegal notices to mount upon, until the matter can be ventilated before the Court at which time the National Executive can account for their willful disregard of the Order.
To the leadership at Pan Trinbago reading this discussion, a word to the wise coming from the floor.....I implore you to proceed with caution and even the person who you think and believe is a fool has a message for you....is not what you do but how you do it.
The deafening silence of the pan people.. is aptly put.............Let us all be guided accordingly.
Regards
Gregory Lindsay
WST forum is really the New Visionaries - and all parties representing the STEELPAN and PAN PLAYERS you have to come clean, this is a new beginning - PAN PLAYERS have suffered enought...it is time the PAN PLAYERS get a fair piece of the SPOILS....
I received a Phone call informing me that the election to be held on Sunday is postpone until further notice and a court hearing is set for 3rd December.
Great move by the New Visionaries...........
The PRESURE is on Pan Trinbago and Keith Diaz slate. Pan Trinbago secretary Richard Forteau said yesterday evening that he had been issued with a summons to attend the Port-of-Spain Eighth Court at 9:30 today.
Forteau, leader of Courts Laventile Sound Specialists, said an injunction had been filed on Pan Trinbago yesterday morning to stop the organization's triennial elections, scheduled for Sunday.
Pressed for further comment, he said, "I have been instructed by my attorney not to make any comment to the media on this matter" If successful, the injunction would debar Pan Trinbago from going ahead with its elections, scheduled for Capital Plaza, formely Crowne Plaza, in Port-ofSpain.
The injunction was filled in the wake of Pan Trinbago's claims that nomination papers filed by four aspirants to post were invalid. The quartet comprise former executive member Keith Simpson, and Denise Hernandez, Maurice Alexander and Steadson Jack.
The four are candidates on the slate named the New Visionaries, led by Tobago's Beveley Ramsey-Moore, the main challenger to the incumbent executive led by Keith Diaz. Call to Diaz's phone yesterday went unanswered.
Article from Guardian newspaper Thursday, October 25, 2012
Andre, keep us informed
Hi guys, I understand that there will be no elections on sunday. The judge granted the New Visionaries the injunction. Breaking News.
This is so unfortunate, that challengers to the current incumbents must go to court to have their right to contest an election settled. From the information gathered, Mr. Patrick Arnold, the former President, he too had to seek legal advice in order to contest the last election. One would think that the secretary of Pan Trinbago would have learnt from that last episode, he does not have the authority to reject any nomination form, but yet he persisted. I would like to know that if the moneys spent on all these legal fees were coming from his pocket if he would have continued down this road. ($800,000.00 in last years annual report) Pan men/women must take a stand that enough is enough, as it is YOUR MONEY that pays all these legal fees.
Slowly, the membership is losing their right to speak up, losing their right to participate in an election. Is this the signs of a creeping dictatorship?
Maybe some are in their positions for too long, making them feel they own the organization.
Pan Trinbago have to appear in high court tomorrow Thursday 25th Oct.2012 at 9 am
Who ever is pardners with the judge go win this case.
Claude, ah tell yuh already but ah go tell yuh again, not all Trini is crook, maybe 99% but thank GOD we have 1% ah righteous people, I am in D 1%. lol!
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