Talk and Party..

PANCAP hosted a Caribbean evening on Wed 21 July, 2010. The thing had food so they was careful about who and who dey inviting and one person was asked if they know how much of the youth dem was coming since.. well Caribbean youth belly lang. The PANCAP social evening overlapped with the Caribbean Youth Forum and it seems dat plenty of de youth dem just aint bother to go because dey was tired or dey didn know. Some people went in a bit late so dey missed de opening remarks.

Ian from Jamaica say dat dere was too much talk talk, and too little partying - party estimates are about 15 minutes to 30 minutes depending on who you ask (some people come late, some lef early). Tony from Jamaica  say he went an eat an den went to de ting, and  dat de ting was nice and dat it was nice to see de ladies from de Jamaica AIDS programme dancing an ting.. he could not say if dey was playing any chi chi man music or so.

Mario from Curacao said he spoke out about the need for decriminalisation of same sex consensual relationships or all the programmes will be bullshit.  He also say dat people have to let the youth's voices be heard. Apparently, a lady from Grenada spoke about the advances being made in the region. After he talk dat, he say nobody from the officials dere come up and say nothing to him except one of the people who say dat is true, the lobbying and advocacy has to be "shrill" sometimes. Dandrina from Barbados say dat de ting was nice, people gaff and so. Steve from Haiti say he did not go because he feels alienated from Pancap and that tokenism is not what is needed. Dudley from Curacao say it was nice to mix wid other Caribbean people and dat de music was good. Kenita from St Lucia say dat by de time she reach, she aint see too many NGO people, it seem dat was mostly government and inter-governmental organisation people. She was happy that Senator Ann Peters spoke at the Caribbean gathering.

A lady from Pancap say dat de evening was nice and she was glad Mario say what he had to say, but she lef early because she was tired. Some of de odder Caribbean people  say dat dey did not know about de event. One or two foreigners who pope the event say that they enjoyed.

Marcus say that it was fantastic, that at the beginning it was just official administrators there and then when all the trans and the vulnerable groups come, the mood change and party tek ovah... and plenty straight people lef and a pancap man open some 15 year old el dorado and apparently.. well there are no pictures as to whether he borrow any of the dresses or hair pieces of the trans to celebrate Caribbean diversity
Ivan from Jamaica say dat de ting was what Caribbean like do, talk and party.