Tuesday February 9th, 2010
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PM’s compound gets concert hall
Published: 5 Nov 2009
Flashback: Chinese labourers work on the northern side of the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s last Thursday. Photo: Keith Mathews
The mystery building, now under feverish construction on the compound of the Prime Minister’s residence in St Ann’s, was revealed last night to be a concert hall which would accommodate 1,000 people on completion. In a statement yesterday, the Office of the Prime Minister said the new concert hall, which is nearing completion, was being constructed because “the ballroom of the Diplomatic Centre only accommodates 250 guests” while the new structure will facilitate four times as many guests “whenever occasions arise for appropriate events. “It will be remembered that hitherto it was not possible to gather such numbers successfully.”
Over 50 heads of government and hundreds of foreign officials are expected in the country later this month to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The public was given its first glimpse of the building in an exclusive report with photographs in the last Sunday Guardian. The article spoke of Chinese labourers working feverishly on the three-storey building near the Diplomatic Centre. The Office of the Prime Minister said the building was the last of the annexes on the compound of the official residence and Diplomatic Centre. According to the statement, the building “was part of the original concept” for the compound and it would be equipped with a stage, dressing room for artistes, toilet facilities for performers and guests, a holding area and storage space for equipment, such as tents and tables.
The Office of the Prime Minister, through its communications and media relations manager, Paige de Leon, said the building would improve the functionality of the Diplomatic Centre and “bring it to optimum operating capacity as it was originally intended.” The release stated that the Diplomatic Centre had increased it capacity with the inclusion of a building now under construction and nearing completion. “This is the final facility to complete the annexures to the building of the official residence and Diplomatic Centre. These now include media and drivers’ lounges and garage facilities,” de Leon stated. Also nearing completion, and being constructed by the same Chinese company, Shanghai Construction, is the Performing Arts Academy, which will accommodate thousands of concert-goers. The Office of the Prime Minister is now advertising for members for a national symphony orchestra. About two years ago, a big band called Divine Echoes was established by the Office of the Prime Minister.
HAVE WE GONE MAD! Concert
HAVE WE GONE MAD!
Concert Hall to hold 1,000 of our nearest and dearest.
What's next to be constructed:
- A Dungeon?
- Tower of T&T (copy of London's)?
- National Symphony Orchestra?
- La Scala?
- Divine Echoes
- National Ballet?
- Circus?
- Zoo? - etc.
Where will this outrage end?
Citizens of this country, please remember the next time you take a sick and suffering loved one to the hospital and they have to lie on makeshift contraption out in the corridors for 3 days ... please remember that your Prime Minister is a happy man with all the luxuries your money can provide. So what's a bit of suffering waiting for service at our almost dysfunctional health care system. Please be happy - That Your Prime Minister is HAPPY! HAPPY!
"The worst sin towards our
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity" (George Bernard Shaw)
Up next, a state of the art
Up next, a state of the art basketball court for his son.
Come on now people, Mr Manning has his very own personal steel orchestra, he needs a home for them.
I think that it would also be nice to install an ice skating rink after this summit.
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Wait, wait. Hold up, mash
Wait, wait. Hold up, mash brakes here.
Isn't there some sort of symphony hall being built near the Savannah that looks like a copy of the famous one in Sydney, Australia?
So we have another symphony hall being build a few hundreds of metres away... why?
Is this government so dotish altogether or are we seeing signs of madness that afflict them en masse? Pa-trick should appreciate that demons possessed the hogs en masse too...
Are people afraid to call for psychiatric evaluations?
Jumbie's Watch
The Centre for the
The Centre for the Performing Arts is already a little like the famous Sydney Opera House. How many of these do we need ?
Now, a 1000 capacity structure to entertain 50 heads of state ?
I guess 'Pat & Hazel' can now have private concerts in the privacy of their personal residence. Yes, the PM thinks he is competing with the White House in the US.
Next up - a pastry shop; a popcorn stand ; a movie theatre and something to make cotton candy - because this has really become a circus !!
Benny Hinn now has his own
Benny Hinn now has his own tabernacle to preach when he visits the 'Foolish Man'.
Jumbie's Watch
Excuse me!!!!!!! A concert
Excuse me!!!!!!!
A concert hall with Queens Hall next door?
This is total madness.
Don't blame Manning, blame all those idiots who would go and vote for this PNM govt. again, or just as bad, can't see any wrong in Panday
AND ALL THOSE
AND ALL THOSE -
Who don't have the sense to unite in the opposition and in fact gave the Government to PNM.
When I first read this
When I first read this story, I couldn't help laughing uncontrollably. It gave my heart and lungs a good workout and perked me up. But, it was short-lived when the sheer horror struck me and I could no longer see the funny side of it.
Only over the weekend we saw a glimpse of the extravagant performing arts centre and now we see a duplication although on a reduced scale. Is this megalomaniac fast reaching his nemesis?
How often would this facility be used? Will Manning be spending long enchanted evenings here entertained by his personal Divine Echoes as he goes into some kind of nirvana? And I thought Ceausescu was bad. I wonder what those Cuban doctors have been doing to our esteemed Prime Minister. Have they been tinkering with his mind and brain? Have they given him a heart transplant replacing his caring heart with a stone? Is living in St Anns affecting him? What is really going on?
And Panday wants to help this maniac re-write the constitution to give him absolute power, powers and control?
Heaven protect us!
One man - One vote. Doh vex
One man - One vote.
Doh vex when yuh get what yuh deserve.
ALL AH WE VOTE
ALL AH WE VOTE -
Collective responsability, all ah we vote.
It will probably be used for
It will probably be used for church services too.
The Prince - Madness! This
The Prince - Madness!
This rage is too much for the human soul to deal with.
I think that we should all be going on a retreat at Salybia Spa and Resourt to get ourselves 'centred'. We are too much of a civilised people to react the way we should.
The people of Romania took their Ceausescue to task for his governance; and his was a 'walk in the park' to what we are having to witness under this reign.
I am keeping an eye out for you; so chin up, shoulders back. We may live to see another day break and sunrise. Smile my friend as the young ones are relying upon us.
Gardenia
Yes, Gardenia, Boynes could
Yes, Gardenia, Boynes could do with the money. Business slow in Salibyia these days.
Greed must really be good!
Greed must really be good!
Fairplay me boy ..... All ah
Fairplay me boy .....
All ah we did not vote for this Ex President Patosanad his squander mania eh.
Just thought Id let you know that
What I do knwo is that we are "indifferent to out destiny"
jp
HEAR IS HOW IT WORKS
HEAR IS HOW IT WORKS -
1) If you vote for PNM you vote for Patos.
2) If you vote for UNC, yuh split yuh vote and help Patos to win.
3) If yuh vote for COP, yuh split you votes and help Pastos to win.
4) If yuh did not vote yuh did not vote against PNM, and allowed Patos to win.
In the final analysis the result is the combined will of the people. We all voted for PNM to be the Government and UNC to be the Opposition and not a domed seat for COP. The voice of the people is the voice of GOD. We all vote.
Oh Wise Sage and Repository
Oh Wise Sage and Repository of all knowledge, please help us and tell us less fortunate whom to vote for next time when we have to do our civic duty in the next three years' time. We shall be eternally grateful for your wisdom. Will it be Bas? Will it be Patrick, will it be Winston, will it be Jack, will it be Ramesh, will it be Prakash? will it be Kamla, will it be Roodal, or will it be Rowley? Please help us out of our agony and misery.
IT IS NOT MY BUSINESS
IT IS NOT MY BUSINESS -
You are free to make the same mistakes that I make. I am only explaining the process and our roles and responsibilities. I have been a supporter of PNM, NAR (UNC/ONR/COP) and UNC and I have been wrong all three times. The process is flawed if it is not changed no matter who you put same ka ka la ka. The voice of the people is the voice of GOD and the people shall prevail. I remember a school motto "It all depends on you".
Fairplay me boy ..... All ah
Fairplay me boy .....
All ah we did not vote for this Ex President Patosanad his squander mania eh.
Just thought Id let you know that
What I do knwo is that we are "indifferent to out destiny"
jp
Oh Dear I glad I does live
Oh Dear I glad I does live in England oui, as I woulda really go crazy in cuckoo land, along with the PM nr St Anns, in what is going on down dey. Really, someone I read hinted a Psychiatric examination? Nuf is enuff: is the man gone mad? stark raving bonkers? This is serious stuff. How come his Cabinet accepted this plan? 2 concert halls? how do you justify that? Nah, I pinch meself, Wake up Des, wake up!! boy!!, nahboy its ah dream only but I wake already, I said, I had my breakfast already, its not a dream I say. so what do we do? we have to take this PM away to St Anns in shackles, Maybe send him to exile in St Helena with the wild pigs out there.
Will we get a doubles stand? a goat roti centre, a burger joint, pizza hut, fried chicken place, anything now is a good probability. Why someone dont put up some odds at the bookies on whats next, then we bet on it. This man doing ting like he eh leaving the Palace? Look out for water trenches and filled with alligators and a drawbridge, own power station, own veggie gardens and a herd of goats- ram goats and cattle then I tink he self sustaining, and Panday agreed to Executive Pressy?, Maybe this is where the Exec Pres will live? I just though 2 of the helicopters could be parked there soon.
Am I reading right? Nah, it
Am I reading right? Nah, it must be some kinda error. People up in arms about a 2 million dollar flag and no one poops about the PM's private concert hall. I am anxious to see how the spin doctors deal with this one.
$25,000 COUP
$25,000 COUP -
Remember we had a COUP for a $25,000 Jean Miles statue.
Once again, the good of the
Once again, the good of the few has outweighed the good of the many! Congrats T&T on your new 'dance hall' at the PMs residence. You will probably never get to see it from the inside but you can sure as hell see it while you protest on the sidewalk outside.
Wake up!
UNINSPIRED
Good point !! By having this
Good point !! By having this built on the compound of the PM's official residence, the ruling Government has ensured that the T&T public will never see the light of the day inside this structure.
Imagine this being built with public funds, without first having public consultation. This is no longer a democrary at work here. Too many visits to Cuba, and cozying up to Chavez has put the PM into a different time warp.
This is a budding dictatorship at its finest. What next ? Amending the Constitution so that he can be a PM for life !! Shades of Pinochet !!
...poor Patos...another
...poor Patos...another Third World leader, driven by megalomania, forgets the key survival lesson....circuses without bread don't ever work....flag, choir...etc
According to the Guardian
According to the Guardian front page sub-headline 'PM gets more ball room', I would recommend that Patos go see a urologist quick quick.
Had I been away from T&T for
Had I been away from T&T for a while, on hearing this I would think that Queen's Hall was destroyed by fire or something. So tell me, it too hard for the PM to entertain his guests at Queen's Hall? Or perhaps, Queen's Hall is not fit for the King. Just now he might want his own Savannah too.
Mr Manning is fixing up his
Mr Manning is fixing up his house for Her majesty's visit! What allyuh vex for? Poor Max will be left out in the rain.
Absalom Cleghorn
Does Patos need a "ball
Does Patos need a "ball room" or more "balls room" ? He needs to see a good Sando Tailor to make he pants with "two big Jam piece" and "high rise". Throw in "bell bottoms" also.