Guardian
...The issues and concerns raised by the protesting pan players will be dealt with when the substantive president of the steel band body returns from his three week sick leave. Diaz underwent angioplasty surgery to his heart to unclog blocked arteries last week.
On concerns raised about a lack of transparency by the executive in the purchase of a luxury vehicle for Diaz, Forteau said “that is engaging the attention of our legal team. We are definitely going to clear (our name) and I am telling you from now Pan Trinbago will be vindicated.”
He insisted the organisation was the legal body to run Panorama and will continue to do so. He said Community Development, Culture and the Arts Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly failed to meet with the organisation “to reign in” Pan Trinbago to discuss the matter.
Forteau said Gasdby-Dolly has “added fuel to the fire” by her public comments on the matter.
In an interview last week, Gadbsy-Dolly told the T&T Guardian she had to act to “protect the taxpayers’ purse and the interest of the panmen, in light of allegations of financial impropriety involving the steel band organisation. Pan Trinbago, according to the National Carnival Commission was $31 m in debt, and the Minister said the Government was “no longer be giving Pan Trinbago money. Prize money, money for suppliers and money for remittances for panmen will now be made available to the NCC,” she said....
...Forteau said despite the negative comments being made about the organisation he was happy that we could have come together and and agreed to move on.
He said he wanted to “tell the minister she did not get through because she thought by today she would have been hearing that some of us at the morgue.”...
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i AM NOT SORRY THAT YOUR bALLS ARE TOO sMALL iF YOU DONT STAND FOR SOMETHING YOU WILL FALL FOR ANYTHING, dIAZ USING hUMAN PHYSCOLOGY ON THEM fellas, they should hnow that
sold for a few pieces of silver
Depression and ah Concussion, ah really felt that pan people was ready to go all the way, back to business as usual, yes massa, OK massa, this far enough massa?
Cecil: I have never used an OBSCENE WORD on this forum and it took all the self-control I have to contain my language tonight.
Ah wonder how big the BRIBES were?
PAN TIMES: Allyuh go have to BAN MEH from coming on this forum. Because I now have a PERSONAL VENDETTA against Dale and Gregory for their HYPOCRISY and SELF-SERVING agendas.
Every morning from now on I am coming on this forum and TERRORIZE those TWO HYPOCRITES. Especially that GREGORY LINDSAY who ran back to that meeting claiming that he went in the hospital and get KEITH DIAZ to hand in his resignation toying with the emotions of hundreds of thousands of real PAN LOVERS all over the world. Now all who been reading this forum for a long time know that I eh no PAN LOVER -- but I feel the pain of people like Ayesha and bugs and Cecil and Salah and odw and Andre.
People have come on this forum and advocated that you should spend your life looking BACKWARD, but not me. I am looking forward to the day when we get rid of DIAZ and FORTEAU and DANE and GREGORY.
I am actually DEPRESSED because those who could read English and separate sarcasm from street talk from Trini banter (I am a real TRINI not an imported TRINI) from psychological insight from inside information -- must have realized that I wanted KEITH DIAZ and that corrupt PAN TRINBAGO organization banished to HELL.
Simply Amazing.
Movie Done...
Ah Freeking Nightmare.
The land of gangstas, crooks and cowards
Can't spell no more Patrick. Suffering from a severe concussion.
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