I would like to com­ment up­on two is­sues con­cern­ing the func­tion­ing of PANTRIN­BA­GO’s man­age­ment team both past and present.

Two ar­ti­cles in the Guardian news­pa­pers on con­sec­u­tive days in No­vem­ber 2019 – 17 and 18 con­cerns the past regime. The sec­ond is­sue is with the be­hav­iour of the Pres­i­dent of the present regime at a re­cent meet­ing.

These two ar­ti­cles re­ferred to above would leave any sane per­son com­plete­ly baf­fled at the per­for­mance of the then ma­m­age­ment.

A foren­sic re­port for­ward­ed by the au­di­tors Ernst & Young & Co ex­posed the fla­grant dis­re­gard of prop­er ac­count­ing by the then ma­m­age­ment group head­ed by its pres­i­dent Mr Kei­th Di­az. I men­tion his name on­ly from the team be­cause lat­er on in this ar­ti­cle his name would rise again.

Au­dit­ed re­ports are sup­pose to give a true and ac­cu­rate pic­ture of fi­nan­cial per­for­mances. This au­dit pre­sent­ed a dis­mal dis­play of wan­ton mis­man­age­ment of funds al­lot­ted to this group, main­ly from Gov­ern­ment to help pay for ex­pens­es.

Per­haps both Gov­ern­ment and the present Pantrib­a­go Ex­ec­u­tive must in­ves­ti­gate the pre­vi­ous man­age­ment group ask­ing them to ac­count for their ac­tions or lack there­of.

Pos­si­bly the au­di­tors can be called up­on to ex­plain their fail­ure in get­ting the then man­age­ment crew to ex­plain all the ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties that had tak­en place con­tin­u­al­ly over a pe­ri­od of time.

Turn­ing to our cur­rent man­age­ment team, I would like the pres­i­dent, Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore to ex­plain to steel­band mem­bers of Pantrin­ba­go why she rec­om­mend­ed ver­bal­ly to and I quote “Bury the Re­port” and then lat­er to ve­hemt­ly de­ny au­di­bly voic­ing those words. I heard her my­self and I am at a loss to un­der­stand the log­ic be­hind her now de­nial of hav­ing said those words.

The rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Pow­er Stars Steel Orch., while ad­dress­ing the floor af­ter Madam Pres­i­dent ut­ter­ances, re­ject­ed the idea of mov­ing on with­out tak­ing any ac­tion to rec­ti­fy the past.

He was in­ter­rut­ed by the word “Tim­ing” be­ing re­peat­ed three time by some­one at the head ta­ble fol­lowed by the ques­tion “You want to see Di­az in hand­cuffs?”

Can it be a slight touch of” Se­nior mo­ment” af­flic­tion be­ing the cause of the de­nial of hav­ing said “Bury the re­port”? I would like to hope that is the case.

This is­sue is not about Di­az or any­one else from the past man­age­ment be­ing “han­cuffed” It is about ho­n­our­ing your com­mit­ment to pan­men.

Madame Pres­i­dent it would go a long way to restor­ing con­fi­dence in you, to hear you ad­mit to hav­ing erred. I trust that won’t be long in com­ing.

Michael Fran­co

Bel­mont