Richard?Lord

Closed door dis­cus­sions with Pan Trin­ba­go and the Unit­ed Pan Play­ers Move­ment broke down yes­ter­day.

The meet­ing was held in the wake of last Wednes­day's protest by pan play­ers out­side the head of­fice of the or­gan­i­sa­tion on Park Street, Port-of-Spain, de­mand­ing the im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tion of the body's ex­ec­u­tive.

Yes­ter­day's meet­ing, which took place at City Hall, Port-of-Spain, was in­tend­ed to reach agree­ment on the way for­ward for Pan Trin­ba­go but af­ter four hours it broke up with­out agree­ment.

Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Richard Forteau, and lead­ers of the UPPM Dane Gul­ston and Gre­go­ry Lind­say at­tend­ed the meet­ing.

Among the ma­jor pro­pos­als of the plan of ac­tion was the need to ap­prove a mo­tion for the en­tire Pan Trin­ba­go ex­ec­u­tive, un­der Forteau to re­sign with im­me­di­ate ef­fect and a 90-day in­ter­im ex­ec­u­tive be sworn in.

The in­ter­im ex­ec­u­tive was to in­clude the four re­gion­al chair­men of Pan Trin­ba­go and three oth­er mem­bers– for­mer city may­or Keron Valen­tine, Kei­th By­er and Michael Mar­cano. The plan al­so re­quired NCC ac­coun­tant, Nigel Williams, to be re­spon­si­ble for fi­nance in the in­ter­im com­mit­tee.

But yes­ter­day's dis­cus­sions broke down and calls were made by some present for the Prime Min­is­ter to in­ter­vene in the im­passe be­tween the dis­grun­tled pan play­ers and the cen­tral ex­ec­u­tive of the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Gul­ston, Lind­say and oth­ers have been de­mand­ing the res­ig­na­tion of the en­tire Pan Trin­ba­go cen­tral ex­ec­u­tive be­cause of a lack of trans­paren­cy and dis­re­spect for mem­bers.

Last Sat­ur­day As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary, Cindy Rosemin re­signed claim­ing there was a lack of trans­paren­cy in the fi­nan­cial af­fairs of the steel­band body.

She was the sec­ond ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber to quit in the past months ads for­mer Vice Pres­i­dent By­ron Ser­rette re­signed over the same is­sue.

To­day's emer­gency meet­ing is ex­pect­ed to be heat­ed.