Trinidad Express - Keith Subero
After the results of Pan Trinbago’s elections were announced last Sunday, with the new Beverly Ramsey-Moore executive team taking over the organisation, I found myself recalling a statement which I made sometime in the 1990s: “The only thing wrong with pan is the panman!”
I repeated this oftentimes, causing some persons, I guess, to have interpreted it as politically-incorrect, discourteous, and even condescending, but, placed in context, it was a frustrating conclusion, after my two working experiences with the pan body.
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"Up to last Sunday, I had hoped that PAN TRINBAGO MEMBERSHIP would have evolved!!!
Instead last Sunday showed that they preferred to stay with those familiar to them; they chose an executive headed by Beverley Ramsey-Moore!!!
[Beverley Ramsey-Moore promised TRANSFORMATION] transformation is not only about obtaining members' trust, but re-establishing pan's lost presence in our lives ... and ESTABLISHING BRAND T&T WORLDWIDE.
The Ramsey-Moore executive must be 21st century ready. ... It has to grasp the accelerated pace of world change, the creative speed of MUSICAL INNOVATIONS, smart technologies and the growing digitally connected world.
At my last check the PAN TRINBAGO ORGANIZATION could not account for near [$54] million in liabilities. [Beverley Ramsey-Moore and] Minister Gadsby-Dolly, these matters demand, not only your direct attention, but the Police Service and the Director of Public Prosecutions."
Why are they putting ALL THIS PRESSURE on Beverley Ramsey-Moore? When everybody knows that she CANNOT even vaguely come close to meeting all these expectations. To be honest about it, I don't think that Mrs. Beverley Ramsey-Moore is 21st century ready. And she certainly cannot grasp the accelerated pace of world change, the creative speed of MUSICAL INNOVATIONS.
So de pan gone and de Pan Woman Beverley stay in charge of PAN TRINBAGO with its 20th Century thinking and voting!!!
And I thought it was ME ALONE who had ah different lens!!! Great article, Mr. Keith Subero!!!