How can you vote for a member serving under the preident of Pantrinbago who remain silent about corruption ? Trinidad is nice Trinidad is Pantrinbago.

How can anyone vote for a member presently serving for umpteen years under the president of Pantrinbago and saying nothing about the corruption going on in Pantrinbago. A vote for them is a vote for Diaz. As one Panorama judge said after Panorama a f

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“Mighty Trini” hits poor treatment for culture

TABANCA FOR TRINI: Calypsonian Robert “Mighty Trini” Elias, right, greets adoring fans yesterday at the Rotary Club of Central PoS luncheon at the Hotel Normandie in St Ann’s. PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB

ROBERT “De Mighty Trini” Elias is not satisfied wit

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Is Aquil Arrindell misrepresenting the PAN TRINBAGO and KEITH DIAZ position on the PRIZE STRUCTURE?

No cuts in Panorama prizes

Officials of Pan Trinbago and the board of the National Carnival Commission agree to maintain the existing prize structure for Panorama 2018.

 

However, a settlement on the Players Remittance, remain

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She say she players eh PUSHING NO PAN ON THE ROAD.

I totally agree with her. Why should she? With children building robots that can push and pull pan rack, why should she? I recently saw a robot that was built from parts from a garbage dump by a Nigerian child. And if you don't like robots I've been

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A Trinidadian, not a Jamaican, is the foundation of Reggae Music.

Lynn Taitt, the Trinidadian responsible for reggae music.

by 18 Karat Reggae

The entire world knows that reggae music comes from rocksteady. What most people don’t know, however, is that although rocksteady started in Jamaica, it was started by a Tr

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Beam me up Scottie A national award for Mr. Michael Scott, a community hero, a pan man.

Beam me up Scottie

A national award for Mr. Michael Scott, a community hero, a pan man.

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

I had recently performed at the celebration of life for Mr Scott at La Brea Nightingales pan yard. It was visually evident from the massive

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Guyanese American Delegation Ends Successful Cuba Encounter

...Some four decades ago the Government of Guyana donated a set of steel pans to the Cuban community in Santiago de Cuba as well as provided two steel pan tuners to assist with the launch of Cuba’s first steel orchestra.

On Friday afternoon, two of t

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What is the true worth and scope of the national instrument?

by Sandra Blood

Is there an elite realm of pan?

How should an elite steel orchestra be characterised? Does T&T comprise elite steel orchestras – yielding Bach, Beethoven or Tchaikovsky-quality music worthy of concert fees being $1,500 or US$250 per e

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The International Steelband Foundation (aka Big Five) must demand an apology for Master Tuner Birch Kelman or apologize for its own complicity in the crime

The honorable Birch Kelman was insulted in public at an event (Panorama 2018) that your members supported and participated in. Please allow Mr. Kelman the dignity of knowing that his life work and commitment to excellence is worth more to your organi

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PANIST PROMOTING PANIST.

What is your opinion about the Steelband Movement promoting the works of Pan music composers Boogsie, Andy, Ray, Pellham, Robert, Pro. Bradley and any other composer.?

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Pane tickets for PT executive members, South zone, who are you supporting now? Everyone you supported got paid off.

South zone, who are you supporting now? Everyone you supported got paid off.

by Aquil Arrindell

The motion against the C.I.P (in an unconstitutional meeting) was moved by Wire, accepted by the chairman and his executive and was passed by the members

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IT'S JUST A GOOD IDEA.....

Having steelbands roll through the Savannah for panorama preliminaries is just a good idea that should not be dismissed today. Doing this will have a lasting effect on the young generation.   

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Mr. Diaz be the hero; kill the monster you created.

Mr. Diaz be the hero; kill the monster you created.

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

Divide and rule.

 

Before Carnival, I wrote an article that explained that the only reason the president called a meeting with single bands was because he had heard that Mr. A

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Renegades Steel Orchestra player lands role in Black Panther

#OJOTTRN #EXCLUSIVE
Trinidadian Teneisha Campbell has had leading roles in other movies, but a cameo appearance as a border tribeswoman in a fight scene between Black Panther and M'Buku has turned out to be the most exciting moment of her career.

Bor

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Rudy T, ambassador for pan

Trinidad Newsday

President Anthony Carmona greets Rudy “Twoleft” Smith at the Office of the President on February 20.

RUDY “Twoleft” Smith is an ambassador for steelpan in Denmark, where he lives in Copenhagen, and throughout Europe.

However, his h

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BIG TRUCKS FOR CARNIVAL ARE HERE TO STAY!!!

You have to UNDERSTAND THE CULTURE!!!

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NEW PRESIDENT paints a GRIM PICTURE of Trinidad and Tobago

Weekes said many have beset us with dismal stories, “telling us that T&T is currently close to the point of no return…crime, corruption, racism, a dismal public services an

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Look here! supporters enjoying themselves, with pantrinbago election in the air, who ever the next president is please bring the 2019 Panorama back to the people.

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I like the NEW CALYPSO KING OF THE WORLD!!!

I am sure that not too many people in the rest of the world will get upset when we call HELON FRANCIS "CALYPSO KING OF THE WORLD" ... and I figured out what I was hearing in terms of the delivery style of the lyrics and I could live with it. So now I

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Cuban steel orchestra started with pans, training from Guyana now “a hit”

By Abbisola Oxley

Havana,  Cuba – Some 40 years ago Guyana donated the steel pans to help form the first steel orchestra in Cuba which is based in Santiago de Cuba. Today, the band is “a hit” and is popular throughout Cuba.

On February 23rd, as Guyan

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