MUST BE SOMETHING IN THE FOREIGN WATER

There must be some kind of hallucinogenic in the NORTH AMERICAN WATER that suddenly makes EXPATS want to see people PUSHING PAN ON THE ROAD FOR CARNIVAL just like back in the SIXTIES. I don't see people living in Trinidad like Bertel Gittens and Alima Garcia and Merrytones and Gerard Clarke (all major daily contributors to the STEELBAND MOVEMENT) asking the POWERS THAT BE to shut down the DEE JAY and BRING PAN BACK ON THE ROAD like in the SIXTIES with people pushing. (I don't even see Keith Diaz campaigning for PAN ON THE ROAD with people pushing.) So it must be something in the YANKEE and CANADIAN water that arrests the brains of the EXPATS and have them wanting to go BACK IN TIME. Instead of looking ahead to the future.

The real irony in this thing is that these very EXPATS who are claiming this PUSHING PAN ON THE ROAD TING is the greatest experience in the world -- all ah dem run from Trinidad and abandon the PAN ON THE ROAD (with all the sweetness) and gone to foreign. Now the ting dead dey suddenly want to WISH IT BACK INTO THE FUTURE. Ah doh think the globe does spin backwards and forwards.

Well, there is a simple solution: A simple FIX. Return to the land of SWEETNESS and make this PAN THING HAPPEN. Go back and show the youths of today the SWEETNESS OF PAN ON THE ROAD and I am sure that they will DROP THE DEEJAY like a HOT POTATO and start jumping up to STEELBAND ON THE ROAD on CARNIVAL DAY and PUSHING PAN from morning til night just like back in the SIXTIES.

Claude Gonzales don't blame foreign pan veterans for the present status of pan in the Mecca . Rum shops still opening up early in the morning in Trinidad . You still have to climb a coconut and mango tree to get the fruits. You still eating stew chicken with callaloo and macaroni pie on Sundays. The same corruption going on in the Govt year after year. Most of the panyards still look prehistoric and the pan players still smoking they Ganga during practice. It you come and witness Jouvert in Brooklyn, NY , Miami, Boston or any State you will notice people are still pushing pans on the roads. Is 22 plus Steelbands on the roads during Brooklyn Jouvert and we enjoy pushing pans to the beat of sweet music and DJs are excluded. The local Trinidadians are too blasted lazy and want the few Steelbands on the roads to be on trucks. The younger generation have taken over the land and predicating what they want and the old heads have no say. Now the biggest problem in the Mecca presently is high crime . What could you expect when you stop school teachers from disciplining students . The local parents can't even punish their hard headed children because the authorities to be will step in and peprimand them. So before you make statements think ! Ah lie

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ARTHUR W TRAVERSO May 25, 2016 at 10:14pm

Claude Gonzales don't blame foreign pan veterans for the present status of pan in the Mecca . Rum shops still opening up early in the morning in Trinidad . You still have to climb a coconut and mango tree to get the fruits. You still eating stew chicken with callaloo and macaroni pie on Sundays. The same corruption going on in the Govt year after year. Most of the panyards still look prehistoric and the pan players still smoking they Ganga during practice. It you come and witness Jouvert in Brooklyn, NY , Miami, Boston or any State you will notice people are still pushing pans on the roads. Is 22 plus Steelbands on the roads during Brooklyn Jouvert and we enjoy pushing pans to the beat of sweet music and DJs are excluded. The local Trinidadians are too blasted lazy and want the few Steelbands on the roads to be on trucks. The younger generation have taken over the land and predicating what they want and the old heads have no say. Now the biggest problem in the Mecca presently is high crime . What could you expect when you stop school teachers from disciplining students . The local parents can't even punish their hard headed children because the authorities to be will step in and peprimand them. So before you make statements think ! Ah lie
- Claude Gonzales > ARTHUR W TRAVERSO May 26, 2016 at 12:06am
  
  GOOD RESPONSE Senor TRAVERSO!!!
Bertel Gittens May 25, 2016 at 9:41pm

Claude boi, is when ole people aint have nutten to do, dey does wish dey was young again and doing d tings dey used to do. Dem in ah pan time warp.
Mercer Ramdoo May 25, 2016 at 4:57pm

Nah, nutten in the water. It's a spiritual connection, a oneness with the pan. When Invaders celebrated their 75th with pan in the streets...locals loved it. I'd rather have pan in the streets than pan in the air. Is it successful in the Mecca? i.e NY. Is it? Something is definitely wrong with these ex-pats, imagine taking the instruments to all corners of the globe. Way!!!

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