Sean Nero

"They thief!" says a Sagi­cor Ex­o­dus sup­port­er fol­low­ing the de­ci­sion by the Panora­ma 2010 mu­sic ad­ju­di­ca­tors to leave the band out of this year's fi­nal for the first time in 20 years. At Fri­day's Sagi­cor Fi­nan­cial an­nu­al pa­n­yard lime held at the Ex­o­dus Steel Or­ches­tra's head­quar­ters lo­cat­ed on the East­ern Main Road, Tu­na­puna, the four-time Na­tion­al Panora­ma cham­pi­ons ren­dered its Panora­ma tune-of-choice ti­tled, Pan In The Mas, com­posed and arranged for the band by Pel­ham God­dard. The band had a cap­tive au­di­ence through­out the per­for­mance of this eight-minute se­lec­tion and on com­pe­ti­tion re­ceived thun­der­ous ap­plause. The sin­gle voice ut­ter­ing the poignant phrase "they thief" res­onat­ed across the precincts of the Ex­o­dus pa­n­yard and drew cheers and ap­plause. Scores of guests turned out for the so­cial event giv­ing the Ex­o­dus mem­bers and ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cers pos­i­tive vibes.

LEFT: ?Nali­ni Akal wrapped guests with her sen­su­al dance moves. PHO­TOS: SEAN NERO

The band went on to de­light the au­di­ence with its scin­til­lat­ing reper­toire while in the spot­light. Oth­er acts on the evening's show­case in­clud­ed res­i­dent arranger Pel­ham God­dard and Friends, Baron (Tim­o­thy Watkins), dancer Nali­ni Akal and The Black Stal­in (Dr Leroy Cal­liste). Guests at Fri­day's pa­n­yard soiree in­clud­ed Cather­ine Ku­mar, chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer at the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, for­mer Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter and Diego Mar­tin West MP Dr Kei­th Row­ley, for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ters John Ra­hael and Au­gus­tus Ram­rek­ers­ingh, In­for­ma­tion Min­is­ter Neil Parsan­lal, First Cit­i­zens Group chair­man Samuel L Mar­tin, Sco­tia Bank man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, Richard Young, and for­mer Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Owen Ser­rette and wife Jacque­line.