No steelbands for Arima Borough Day - Panists ordered to stay away...

[Pan Times]

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Any steelband that participates in today's Arima Borough Day celebrations will be barred from competing in the 2011 International Steelband Music Festival and the 2012 National Panorama Championships, Pan Trinbago East Region vice-chairman Anthony Walker declared yesterday.

 

Walker told the Express the council of the Arima corporation is disrespectful towards panmen, and this is why all steel orchestras have been instructed by Pan Trinbago to boycott the street concert, featuring several steebands, that was scheduled to take place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. today.

 

...."We began negotiations, willing to see how best we could work things out, but things broke down when we realised the council was not prepared to be straight with us. Then the mayor told us he will give us $30,000 and to take it or leave it. Panmen have been disrespected for too long, and now is the time for that to stop."

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[jerome ebenezer clarke]

When would we ever learn,those that are making decisions without the consideration,, should stand behind a steelpan for hours and  get an idea of what it is to be a steelpan player,THE    REMARK TAKE IT ,,,OR LEAVE ITT,,,IS A GROSS INSULT ,, AND   TOTAL DISRESPECT,,,,THERE IS NEED  FOR  RETRACTION  OF  SUCH   A STATEMENT  WITH  DISCIPLINARY  ACTION  TAKEN AGAINST THIS UNMANNERLY  AND  IGNORANT FOOL,,THE DAYS OF SLAVERY IS ABOLISHED, THER IS NO MORE MASSA AND MISSIE,YES SIR NO SIR,,,THESE ARE THE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT DESTROYS THE  HAPPIINESS,,THE ENTHUSIASM , THE JOY AND  THE UNRELENTED EFFORTS MADE BY STEELPAN PLAYERS,THIS INCLUDES MALES AND FEMALES,,as the saying goes  etiquette begins at home  and the mayor has none whatsoever,rhese are the type of people that DAUNTS THE SPIRIT OF STEELPAN PLAYERS,,Get up stand up,,stand up fo yu right,who vex vex ,yo spoiling yo own face,,,two wrongs can never make a right.

[Hameed Shaqq]

Pan standing stiff.......lol

[Mercer Ramdoo]

Gypsy??????

[Roderick M. Aqui]

Walker you damn right,take it or leave it? You should have told him that you're leaving it for him to shove it right up his and Gypsy"s .............!!'