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Congratulations to Mangrove Steeband and arranger Andre White - UK 2018 Panorama Champions
When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Mangrove Steelband and arranger Andre White - UK's 2018 Panorama Champions
1st - Mangrove - 279 points
2nd - Ebony - 276 points
3rd - Metronomes - 269 points
4th - Croydon - 258 points
4th - RASPO - 258 p
Ah want to see this list of candidates for PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO real bad!!!
Most of all I want to see if THE RIGHT HONOURBALE KEITH DIAZ is running again. Ah hope people realize that if THREE or FOUR candidates run for PRESIDENT against THE RIGHT HONOURABLE they will split the vote and THE RIGHT HONOURBALE will win again.
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Read more…I would expect THE CIP to be RANTING and RAVING on THIS FORUM this morning. But instead dem fellahs quiet like JEFF SESSIONS!!!
KEITH DIAZ well mamaguy (that is an international english word now) everybody yesterday. You would think that GREGORY LINDSAY or AQUIL ARRINDELL would be on THIS FORUM this morning raising loud voices against THE ENTIRE EXECUTIVE which they say MUST
Read more…After ONE TIME is really TWO!!! As oil production in T&T dropped to 40,000 barrels a day (and they had to close the refinery), Guyana is heading to 500,000 a day -- out of the BLUE!!!
DISCOVERY OF OIL will change the world view on Guyana and lift the image as a country that is no longer seen as poor but is fast moving from potential to prosperity.
Meanwhile, in Trinidad: GREED and CORRUPTION mashing up the SOCA YARD (ah steal that
Read more…Ah have to give THE FORUM a report on the BIG PAN TRINBAGO MEETING YESTERDAY
Now this meeting was WELL ADVERTISED way in advance. So nobody could say that they did not know about it. WST promoted it!!! I promoted it in my comical fashion!!! PAN TRINBAGO WEBSITE promoted it and I know that it was widely discussed and anticipat
Read more…Remembering Patrick Thomas of Savoys
by Martin Albino
Patrick Thomas my Friend the modest Genius recently passed away in Queens, New York.As Manager of Savoys , Patrick successfully negotiated the band's sponsorship by Chase Manhattan Bank.His mission was to guide youths in the right
Read more…Call for applications: Aspirant orchestral musicians in SA
Music in Africa -
By Ano Shumba
The British Cultural and Heritage Association (BCHA) is calling on aspiring orchestra musicians in Durban to register for the annual Massed Orchestra event at Nkulisa Conference Centre on 21 October.
I would like to invite MR. MICHAEL L JOSEPH to come on THE FORUM and discuss the CURRENT CRISIS in PAN TRINBAGO!!!
I promise to mediate and make sure that he is fairly treated and allowed to make his points.
This offer is also open to MR. RICHARD FORTEAU!!!
Read more…It look as if THE CIP take ah KEITH DIAZ "6" for ah KEITH DIAZ "9" ...
Now I stop using CLICHES about 55 years ago, eh. But I do recognize their USEFULNESS.
So after analyzing this CIP/DIAZ "drowning man catching at a straw" newfound relationship (between THE RIGHT HONOURABLE KEITH DIAZ and THE CIP -- ah little redundan
Read more…Playing Steel Pan Has Changed My Life And Opened Up My Musical World
HuffPost Canada
You haven't heard jazz until you've heard it played on a steel pan. I promise you.
Soca music has been in my life since I was old enough to remember it. I've been jumping up at Caribana since I was a kid — my parents are from Guyana a
Read more…TIEFING A LINE FROM KEITH ROWLEY: “At this point in the country’s history what has to be done has to be done and what has to be done is that [PAN TRINBAGO] has to be restructured"!!!
Now Rowley did not say "PAN TRINBAGO" instead he said "PETROTRIN" -- but this is a PAN FORUM so we have to make the relevant adjustments in our POINT OF VIEW.
PAN TRINBAGO has to be RESTRUCTURED in the BEST INTEREST OF PAN.
And so the 18,000 members
Read more…PAN TRINBAGO (and the entire STEELBAND FRATERNITY) cannot even get a NOMINATION DATE right, yet people are expecting them to develop sophisticated technology to bring PAN back ROLLING ON THE GROUND
Allyuh think PAN TRINBAGO is MIT or Cal Polytechnic or Silicon Valley (with all their Venture Capitalists) or what? They can't even get a NOMINATION DATE right but allyuh dreaming of technological miracles (robots?) invented by the fraternity to get
Read more…THE RIGHT HONOURABLE KEITH DIAZ praises Dr Eric Williams' contribution to PAN
"Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz is today lamenting the failure of society to recognise the sterling efforts and ultimate achievements of Trinidad and Tobago’s first prime minister Dr Eric Williams.
Diaz made specific reference to the growth and th
Read more…Here is the thing: It doh matter to what extent NCC and GYPSY modify the GIMME GIMME money -- people will still TIEF half of it!!!
And let me make it perfectly clear that I ain't pointing no fingers at TRINIDAD when it comes to CORRUPTION, eh. (Because yuh think we could come in the STATES and say we have corruption ... yuh mad or meh LARD OH!!! I could tell allyuh about CORRUPT
Read more…VS NAIPAUL is DEAD!!! (Wrong Forum!) But he was a DISTINGUISHED TRINI!!
Reports out of the United Kingdom quotes his wife, Lady Naipaul, as confirming his death.
According to the BBC, she said he died surrounded by those he loved.
Naipaul was 85.
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Obama credits Trinidadian writer VS Naipaul in interview
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Read more…PAN TRINBAGO SIGNS WITH NCC!!!
"In a radio interview on Wednesday morning, Diaz said Pan Trinbago was still in charge of its affairs and he saw nothing wrong in signing an agreement with the NCC, which wanted greater accountability for the money invested. Diaz said since his invol
Read more…time for an independence award for diaz [The Right Honourable Keith Diaz]
If you read THIS FORUM in detail, you will know that I lifted the subject line above. It takes a keen observer with sharp wit to nominate KEITH DIAZ for such a high award. And to express it with such compressed statement, makes the author, himself, w
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