Therapeutic school students, studio use steelpan drumming class to bring about positive change

By AMY JOHNSON -Northwest Herald

The students from Allendale therapeutic day school in Woodstock were on a walk one day when they heard some cool sounds coming from one of their neighbors.

They went to check it out and happened upon the Culture, Art

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Phase II youth band coming

Trinidad Newsday

Joan Rampersad

INTERNATIONALLY renowned trumpeter Etienne Charles and singer-songwriter-producer Angela Hunte are listed to appear at a fund-raiser event at Phase II Pan Groove pan yard on May 19. And of course Hadco Phase II featur

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All POLITICS and NO PROGRESS FOR PAN

HAPPY HOME: Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley poses with the Gulston family at a key distribution ceremony at the Spring View housing development in Valsayn. From left is Daniel, Dianne, Denilson and pannist Dane.

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CINCO DE MAYO 2018 and KEITH DIAZ is still EL PRESIDENTE DE PAN TRINBAGO!!!

If KEITH DIAZ is not THE GREATEST POLITICIAN IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD -- please tell me WHO IS.

At the end of the second, at the end of the minute, at the end of the hour, at the END OF THE DAY and the WEEK and the MONTH and the YEAR and the DECADE --

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NCC can’t get involved

Trinidad Newsday - Joan Rampersad

Extempo legend Winston 'Gypsy' Peters

National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters has said the NCC cannot get involved in Pan Trinbago's internal affairs.

He said: “It is unfortunate, but tha

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1st, 2ndand 3rdplaced bands will be paid; no money for Pan Trinbago until Photo and his crew are gone; Special Convention on Thursday 17th.

1^st, 2^ndand 3^rdplaced bands will be paid; no money for Pan Trinbago until Photo and his crew are gone; Special Convention on Thursday 17^th.

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

1^st, 2^ndand 3^rdplaced bands will be paid next week. According to my investigations, thi

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How could DOCTOR DOLLY and COLIN LUCAS stay SO SILENT during this PAN TRINBAGO CRISIS?

The very least they could do is to come out and make a couple PUBLIC STATEMENTS even if it is all POLITICAL BABBLE meant to FOOL THE PEOPLE.

I am starting to think that KEITH DIAZ is going to REALLY RESIGN pretty soon.

About THE  CIP? They are still

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Speaking of DOCTOR DOLLY and DUVONE: I could give the MINISTER OF CULTURE a lot of advice on LINKING Duvone, Tourism and PAN!!!

But I know how that party does operate: Hire 300 PARTY FAITHFUL and tell the WORLD how much you are doing for CULTURE and PAN when in fact you are WASTING MILLIONS buying votes.

Duvone Stewart offers a great opportunity and it should be THOUGHT OUT a

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I don't know who SELWYN WILLIAMS is but RUSSELL P. posted a conversation that Selwyn took part in on another forum. And that posting included the WISEST STATEMENT I have ever seen on THIS FORUM

"We have to operate as a business with people who know people ...."

So maybe SELWYN WILLIAMS should be contacted and asked to explain exactly what he meant by the LAST CLAUSE  "PEOPLE WHO KNOW PEOPLE" and the rest of his reasoning.

Claude Gonzales

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GREGORY LINDSAY: Come and give us THE REAL SCOOP, man!!!

I just making up FAKE NEWS to keep THE FORUM alive.

Tell us your version of BIG THURSDAY in PAN T&T!!!

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Gadsby-Dolly digs in on pan payment

by Joan Rampersad - Trinidad Newsday

Despite calls from regional heads of Pan Trinbago for Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly to get the National Carnival Commission (NCC) to pay panmen directly, she has not

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So TODAY the JUDGE is going to confirm that the last two meetings held by THE CIP and KEITH DIAZ were ILLEGAL. And FORTEAU has a right to stay IN OFFICE until OCTOBER!!!

TENS (if not HUNDREDS) of THOUSANDS of PAN MEN MONEY wasted on legal wranglings. Only to end up right where we started -- elections in OCTOBER.

It is time for ONE SENSIBLE PAN LEADER to emerge and represent THE BEST INTEREST OF PAN MEN. And this repr

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So who has been RUNNING THE STEELBAND ASSOCIATION since its inception? PAN MEN!!!

And who RAN UP THIRTY FOUR MILLION IN DEBT for the ASSOCIATION? PAN MEN!!!

And who ALIENATED generous sponsors with their GREED and CORRUPTION? PAN MEN!!!

And who is going to be RUNNING PAN TRINBAGO after the JUNE/OCTOBER election this year (Forteau

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Meade High School steal drum band performs with Liam Teague

Capital Gazette - 

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CIP’s position has not changed but the executive position and composition has.

CIP’s position has not changed but the executive position and composition has. By Aquil Arrindell As the conflict continues between the membership of Pan Trinbago and the temporarily reinstalled executive, strategies are being executed mainly betwe

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UNESCO hands over steel pans to St. John Bosco Orphanage

Stabroek News - Guyana

The United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Monday donated new chrome-plated steel pan instruments to the boys of the St. John Bosco Orphanage in Plaisance on the East Coast of Demerara.

A rel

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FREE STEEL, LA MÉLODIE DU MÉTAL

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Three Pan chairmen want Keith Diaz out

Three regional chairmen of Pan Trinbago yesterday called for the resignation of its central executive and president Keith Diaz, stating that the pan organisation needs to be properly restructured for it to go forward.

The call was made by Tobago’s re

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Google eyes Trinidad and Tobago to strengthen digital capacity

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ALL THE TALK and PANORAMA EXCITEMENT for YEARS on THIS FORUM and it has ALL BEEN A FARCE ("FRAUD")!!!

WHAT A SHAME!!! Merrytonestothebone should get a "NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOUR" for bringing this FRAUD to the attention of THE WORLD. And they should bring me down to TRINIDAD to PIN THE MEDAL on THE MAN.

Ah get SO VEX  ah went on the NCC website today

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