?Bar­ring any le­gal en­tan­gle­ments, Pan Trin­ba­go ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions will take place on Sun­day, Oc­to­ber 25, at the The Au­di­to­ri­um, East Mu­cu­rapo Sec­ondary School, 1 Mu­cu­rapo Road, Mu­cu­rapo. All posts are up for grabs. The main event is the bat­tle for the pres­i­den­cy, which in­volves two heavy­weights, in­cum­bent Patrick Arnold and chal­lenger Kei­th (Bald Head) Di­az. The bat­tle for oth­er posts is al­so in­ter­est­ing, but does not cre­ate as much ex­cite­ment as that for the pres­i­den­cy. To­day, the Buzz gives you briefly, in­sights in­to both men's achieve­ments, to do oth­er­wise to pub­lish a book. At the weigh-in, Di­az looked the heav­ier of the two, de­spite a rig­or­ous cam­paign; Arnold looked calm.

Arnold punch­es hard

To­ba­go-born Arnold has been in the sad­dle for 13 years. He at­tend­ed Scar­bor­ough RC School, St Mary's Col­lege and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, where he grad­u­at­ed with a Bach­e­lor of Arts (so­ci­ol­o­gy) in 1971. Arnold's as­so­ci­a­tion with the steel­band goes back al­most six decades; as play­er, tuner, founder (Our Boys Steel Or­ches­tra) and ad­min­is­tra­tor. Among his many achieve­ments are:

In­creas­ing Panora­ma first prize mon­ey from $37,000 to $1M.

In­sti­tut­ing a $1,000 stipend for pan­men.

Im­ple­men­ta­tion of a con­sti­tu­tion by which Pan Trin­ba­go should be gov­erned.

Or­gan­is­ing Caribbean Panora­ma (Grena­da); Caribbean Ju­nior Fes­ti­val (An­tigua); and, World Steel­band Mu­sic Fes­ti­val (Madi­son Square Gar­den, New York.)

Im­ple­ment­ing Pa­n­yard Sen­sa­tions; Pan Parang; Re­pub­lic Pan Fi­es­ta Com­pe­ti­tion, Pan Kaiso Com­pe­ti­tion, Champs in the 20th Cen­tu­ry; Kings Hold Court.

For­ma­tion of Pan­vesco, T&T Pan Works Ltd and Pan Trin­ba­go Mul­ti-Pur­pose Co-op­er­a­tive So­ci­ety and es­tab­lish­ing the Na­tion­al Youth Steel Or­ches­tra.

Di­az, the UFO

He's called the UFO, be­cause he has been sight­ed all over T&T, the lat­est sight­ing be­ing San­gre Grande. You name the place, Kei­th (Bald Head) Di­az has been there on the ground talk­ing to pan peo­ple. Chair­man of the most vi­brant re­gion in Pan Trin­ba­go (North­ern), Di­az is vy­ing for the Pres­i­den­cy with many feath­ers in his cap. A for­mer stu­dent of Tran­quil­li­ty Sec­ondary School, Di­az has done many cours­es, in man­age­ment (busi­ness and fi­nan­cial) and com­mu­ni­ca­tions, at Cipri­ani Labour Col­lege, Val­sayn. The af­fa­ble Di­az has been in pan some 40 years, 25 of which have been spent serv­ing the steel­band move­ment in sev­er­al ca­pac­i­ties. Di­az lists among his many achieve­ments:

Pan in the 21st Cen­tu­ry com­pe­ti­tion.

Mon­day night pan com­pe­ti­tion.

Pan Sun­day se­ries, Start d Pan and Danc­ing with pan.

Co-founder of Pan Trin­ba­go's New York chap­ter.

Ex­ter­nal Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer of Pan Trin­ba­go (1998-1990).

Pro­duc­er of a three-part pan doc­u­men­tary se­ries.

Host of the steel­band ra­dio pro­grammes, Times for Ra­dio I95.5FM, as well as Ra­dio To­co pro­gramme, Steel In the Show.

Worked on five-part se­ries on CCN TV6–Pan Is Meh Jumbie.

Es­tab­lished steel­band Ex­hi­bi­tion for Car­ifes­ta 1966 at Jean Pierre Com­plex.

Man­ag­er of Star­lift.

PRO of Wit­co Des­per­a­does.

May­hem on the Mag­ic

I am blue vex with my friend and host of The Mag­ic of Pan Ed­die year­wood.

Ed­die al­lowed may­hem on his pro­gramme in a round-ta­ble dis­cus­sion (if you could call it that) which in­clud­ed Pe­ter Ale­ong and Nestor Sul­li­van. They hogged the spot­light. Both men sound­ed bit­ter and ven­omous as they wad­ed in­to Pan Trin­ba­go, tak­en up with the sound of their own voic­es. If you lis­ten to them, it would seem that Pan Trin­ba­go has done noth­ing of worth. I did not like how the no­ble PRO of Pan Trin­ba­go Michael (Sco­bie) Joseph was at­tacked, and the mod­er­a­tor, Ed­die Year­wood, did noth­ing to pro­tect him. What should have been an en­ter­tain­ing pro­gramme turned out to be both men emp­ty­ing their guts with half-baked ideas. Both men ex­em­pli­fied the state­ment: talk is cheap! Un­til next week, keep lov­ing up the pan.