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DEM CIP FELLAHS just DISAPPEAR from the SCENE; One man with ah camera PUT the whole big CIP CREW to SHAME!!!

Ah tell dem CIP MEN yuh doh need NO 20-man committee with 50 titles and 100-page manifesto to start no PAN REVOLUTION in TRINIDAD. Just get your head out of the BALISIER MENTALITY (GIMME GIMME) and put a small 3-man team together (which I have define

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After watching those TWO INTERVIEWS with KEITH DIAZ and RICHARD FORTEAU (Done by Marcus Ash Tray) I know for sure now that PAN PROGRESS is DOOMED in THE MECCA

I used to hold out a  LITTLE HOPE for PAN PROGRESS in the midst of my negativity. But if PAN MEN have chosen to be represented for years (imagine ... 38 years in the case of FORTEAU) -- and in these MODERN TIMES still hold on to these crude, crooked,

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Panorama In NY

So I have seen USSA say they having panorama with a nice increase in prize money and money being paid about a week are two after panorama if thats true nice.

I see Widica saying they having a pan jamboree, my take is what is in it for the bands if th

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DOCTOR DOLLY said that Keith Diaz and Richard Forteau "MISMANAGED" the PAN TRINBAGO FUNDS ...

... and all this time PAN MEN and THE CIP and some WST MEMBERS have been accusing Keith Diaz and Richard Forteau of "TIEFING" up to FORTY ONE MILLION DOLLARS from the PAN TRINBAGO COFFERS.

So now that DOCTOR DOLLY has set the record straight (Mismana

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ELECTIONS COMING UP IN TWO YEARS -- Allyuh really think that the PNM could go TINKERING with the PAN TRINBAGO CRISIS or CONSTITUTION right now!!!

If ALLYUH really want to GO FORWARD with PAN PROGRESS -- allyuh really have to wake up and bring some POLITICAL HONESTY to THE PROCESS.

I can't understand how EXPATS could live in FOREIGN for SO LONG and swear that they LOVE PAN and want PAN PROGRESS

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A PASSIONATE POSITION FROM MARCUS ASH-TRAY!!!

"I can't speak for anyone else, but I have a responsibility to my band, my players, my colleagues, friends and constituents of my region and by extension the Steelpan community to get answers and resolutions to the matters at hand. I didn't come here

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Pantrinbago Mismanaged payment of funds to bands and players (FOR REAL) (LOL) Pay bands and players first after every Panorama and Mismanaged later!!!

Now if the T&T GOVT fails to pay the Ministers including DR. DOLLY their salaries for a period of years and spend it on Parties, Overseas trips, Foreign cars, Hotels, ECT , ECT, Would you call that Mismanaged Tax dollars or we give them the rights to

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BERTEL GITTENS: Maybe it is time for you to STEP UP and take a LEADERSHIP ROLE in this PAN REVOLUTION!!!

Or join forces with a few POTENTIAL LEADERS and make things happen. And, by the way, I recognize you as one of the GREATEST HANDS-ON PAN LOVERS IN THE WORLD!!!

So STEP UP to THE PLATE, man!!!

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The Secretary of Pan Trinbago will go on a Daily Fast.

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I DOH CARE if a HALF-INDIAN BOY from SOUTH or ah THREEQUARTER-INDIAN BOY from SILVER STARS or anyone of the THOUSANDS OF HIGHLY-SKILLED PROFESSIONALS from the PAN FRATERNITY lead us to PAN PROGRESS!!!

All I care about is PAN PROGRESS in TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. An ORGANIZATION in TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO with the ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS and GLOBAL PAN CONSCIOUSNESS to make the PAN MOVEMENT in TRINIDAD -- GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE.

AMERICA is RUNNING AWAY with the

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Marcus Ash-Tray Seeks Answers From Pan Trinbago Live! an interview with Keith Diaz - President

I am at Pan Trinbago. Let's get some answers

See Part Two

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Former Vice President of Pan Trinbago Bryon F. Serrette speaks on the state of Pan Trinbago and more

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I may lose a few friends in the Steelpan Community for this post, but either way I was never good at keeping friends.

I may lose a few friends in the Steelpan Community for this post, but either way I was never good at keeping friends.
I need to clear my chest on this on going matter. For the past 3 years, I have been the Secretary for the Eastern Region of Pan Tri

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Mismanagement Of Funds At TUCO, NCBA And Pan Trinbago

Written by C News

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Well RICHARD FORTEAU really really LOVES Conventional Steelbands and Pannists!!! He should be voted PRESIDENT of PAN TRINBAGO in October!!!

How many PAN LOVERS or PAN TRINBAGO LEADERS would be WILLING to go on a DAILY FAST from eight in the morning to six in the evening and face that kind of hunger just to make sure that STEELBANDS and PANNISTS get PAID for PANORAMA 2018?

Not Beverley!!!

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Check out Pan Is Sweet, presented by Brooklyn Steel Orchestra (BSO)

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Human resource crisis as most pan people are incompetent and dishonest. True or False?

Human resource crisis as most pan people are incompetent and dishonest. True or False?

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

It may seem that there are very few people within the pan fraternity that can bring credibility and professionalism to the organization, but

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I used to think that we had a NUMBERS PROBLEM but ICELAND only have 337,682 people and they hold BIG BIG BIG ARGENTINA to a draw!!!

And they take away we TROPHY for smallest nation (population wise -- ah guess we still have the PRIZE for smallest nation geographically) to ever appear in THE WORLD CUP.

So ah cyar make NO MORE excuses for our FAILURE to get THIS STEELBAND MUSIC (pe

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Pan Association Threatens To Withdraw From PANORAMA - Antigua

Thursday 21st June, 2018 –The Festivals’ Commission says it has responded to the Pan Association’s concerns outlined in a letter where they are threatening to pull out from PANORAMA 2018.

The Association’s Acting President Patrick ‘Stone’ Johnson wr

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Westminster Abbey Celebrates Windrush 70th Anniversary

The moving ceremony marked 70 years since the arrival of the Empire Windrush ship at Tilbury Docks and the influence of Caribbean migrants in the UK

 by Leah Sinclair 

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