Posted by Pan Times on May 5, 2009 at 1:33am in News
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Prime Minister Patrick Manning, his wife Local Government Minister Hazel Manning, Foreign Affairs Minister Paula-Gopie-Scoon, the MP for Point Fortin, and Health Minister Jerry Narace mixed with tourists and locals in Point Fortin on Saturday, as the borough enjoyed the Pan on the Move show, the highlight of its Borough Day celebrations which have been in progress for the last two weeks. None wore masks, despite concerns about swine flu.
Angry DJs packed up their sound systems and left, as police banned them from playing during the Pan on the Move show. Steelbands on hand for the occasion included top bands such as 2009 Panorama champions Silver Stars, Pan in the 21st Century champions TCL Skiffle Bunch and RBTT Redemption Sound Setters of Montgomery Road, Bethel, Tobago. Jah Roots’ Pan Around the Neck, the longest serving steel orchestra in Point Fortin, also performed a hit called When I Dead Bury my Clothes.
The police move against the DJs followed last year’s celebrations when the pannists complained that the DJ’s had affected their performance at the event. As a result, the Point Fortin Borough Corporation issued a memo that all DJs were to shut down their systems at 5 pm, so that the pannists could perform without disruption. When they continued playing, the police went to the DJs and ordered them to stop. Meanwhile, soldiers and police officers kept watch over the festivities.
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Because of the utter disrespect last year the Borough made a very good move this year, if you notice that most of the big bands did not appear as they usually do, that was because of the nastiness last year those people never stop and what hurts is that they were even trying to drown out the soca with this infernal reggae.
We have to learn in Trinidad and Tobago how to appreciate our own culture first and that will make us better understand the next persons culture. Respect the Pan and understand where we have came from with that and the struggle along the way
. At carnival in London we have demanded respect for our thing, but here the place of its birth we treat it as nothing. I hope that the rest of T&T take a page out of that book , and insist on respect when Pan is passing at all our festivals
I have nothing against other caribbean music I listen to them all, but at some point I must have my own.
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We have to learn in Trinidad and Tobago how to appreciate our own culture first and that will make us better understand the next persons culture. Respect the Pan and understand where we have came from with that and the struggle along the way
. At carnival in London we have demanded respect for our thing, but here the place of its birth we treat it as nothing. I hope that the rest of T&T take a page out of that book , and insist on respect when Pan is passing at all our festivals
I have nothing against other caribbean music I listen to them all, but at some point I must have my own.
GOOD! bout dyam time!