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New York Steelband Leadership not Ready for Prime Time
Did you even read your contract?

Looses prize money to neighborhood fake bully...

“Prize monies gone - who hit me?”

It has been 48 hours since the Friday the 13th Steelband Massacre when the NYC pan community was body slammed and kicked in the ass.  They lost their lollypop and all their panorama prize money - thousands of dollars worth, that is.  Quite frankly, no one has come forward with a logical reason why they, the NYC pan community, should not have been taken advantage of.  Why not, because WIADCA (the West Indian American Day Carnival Association) are upstanding citizens and protectors of the arts and culture?  If you believe that, we got a bridge to sell you. 

Look, if WIADCA had not taken the New York pan people’s lunch monies someone else would have.  Let’s be honest: the New York steelband franchises and community lack creditable and skilled leadership in business and the art of exploiting their investments for their own benefit.  Moreover, what little ‘leadership’ there is has not behaved in a manner that would make anyone believe that any form of intelligence or integrity was operating here.

Do the NYC steelband franchises not operate in New York - the entertainment, cultural and financial capital of the world?  Is this not the home of venture capitalists, media moguls, HBO, MTV, Yankee Stadium, CNN, Madison Square Garden, Lincoln Center, Donald Trump and VH1 among many others?  So why are you attending a panorama competition in a parking lot behind the museum for the last four decades?  Are you not the talent, the artists and the performers?  Are you not the reason thousands of people come out to see you perform every year? With such an abundance of arenas, shows, promoters, choices and opportunities, why does any organization the level of a WIADCA even have your telephone number?  We have never heard one person say they are going to panorama to see or hear the promoters of the panorama event.

The Battered Wife Syndrome that the NYC leaders are living and exhibiting for years, is - while embarrassing - very curable.

Simply put: NYC steelbands got “jacked-up” because their management and leaders are not ready for prime time. 

The NYC leadership have done awesome things in regards to just surviving and keeping the culture alive in a very hostile environment.  And they should be commended for that.  Outside of Trinidad & Tobago - there is nothing like pan in New York.  But what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?  As one of the posters in the WST forum asked, “Do you think the New York Yankees didn’t get paid their bonuses after the world series was over?”

Please, please, please, say you signed a contract!


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