PRESIDENT KEITH DIAZ: Back in the GOOD BOOKS of Doctor Dolly and the NCC. A true FIRST CLASS POLITICIAN!!!

At the end of the SINGLE PAN competition, if yuh see Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dolly and Mr. Colin Lucas and Keith Diaz and The Mayor and Borough Councillors of Arima all smiling and socializing together as one -- in this wonderland of Calypso and this wonderl

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Voice enters Calypso Monarch

Trinidad Newsday

GARY CARDINEZ

Two-time Soca Monarch Aaron “Voice” St Louis has thrown his hat into the Calypso Monarch and Road March arena.

St Louis last week registered with the Trinibago Unified Calypsonian Organisation (TUCO) for both competiti

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Ah hope ah reporting this right -- but CONGRATULATIONS to MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE on his 4th place finish in the secondary schools category!!!

It take me ah long time to catch meh bearings here. And ah hope ah get the FACTS right. (Otherwise I will just have to delete the post.) As it happens I do not listen to anything less than a HANDFUL of steelbands for the whole PANORAMA SEASON -- only

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NCC boss declares Panorama success

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From the desk of PAN TRINBAGO: Duvone Stewart does a semi final double!

"It was a double win for Duvone Stewart as the bands he arranged for amassed the most points in both the Medium and Large categories at the National Panorama Medium & Large Band Semi Final & Savannah Party  at last evening at the Queen’s Park Savanna

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MASSIVE MOTHER COUNT makes it to FINALS of CHUTNEY SOCA!!!

Keeping the POLITICAL TENSION alive, Nermal “Massive” Gosein has made it into the finals of the NLCB Play Whe Chutney Soca Monarch competition.

The RAJ STORY (Kenneth Supersad) also made it into the finals.

These two songs turned out to be the best o

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Like "bugs" write this letter to the NEWSDAY EDITOR or what?

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Earl Rodney’s big wish - More recognition needed for one of the country’s top arrangers

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Only OBEAH and DOCTOR DOLLY could save the KALYPSO REVUE from closure ...

"Osuna explained the show was affected by a number of factors including meagre corporate sponsorship, small audiences and a reduction in Government funding.

Osuna said that t

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Former UWI Creative Arts coordinator, Dr Anne-Marion Osborne, has died

LoopTT.com

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Former coordinator of the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, Dr Anne-Marion Osborne, has passed away after struggling with illness.

In a statement the Department said Dr. Osborne passed away on Saturday.

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Female pan pioneer, 79, still going strong

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - To say that panist, lecturer, pan pioneer Daisy James-McClean has paid her dues in the steel band world is an understatement. The 79-year-old passed through the infamous bottle and stone pelting s

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Ah switching meh PICK back to SKIFFLE -- what good for the PRIME MINISTER ... GOOD FOR ME!!!

Newsday February, 9th

Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley and his Cabinet Ministers visited the Skiffle pan yard located on Coffee Street in San Fernando on Thursday night.

http://newsday.co.tt/2018/02/09/pm-at-skiffle/

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Japan blanks Carnival: Fear lingers 2 years after Asami’s murder

Trinidad Newsday

MURDERED: Japanese native Asami Nagakiya, murdered in 2016.

Fear has led to Japanese people virtually blanking TT Carnival this year, almost two years after one of their own, Asami Nagakiya, was strangled and her body dumped under

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Exodus stops traffic in St Augustine

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It appeared to be divine intervention at work as judges moved from Genesis to Exodus, as the Preliminary round of judging for Large Conventional Bands for the National Panorama competition kicked

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Better Budgeting By TUCO

The Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts says the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) has been receiving its funding in parts for the Carnival Season since November of last year.

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Despite Challenges, Moods Steel Orchestra Ready For Pan Semis

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Who would have thought that the Ace Pan Tuner -- GERARD CLARKE -- would bring PAN full circle around?

GERARD CLARKE, the PAN TUNER for St. Joseph's Convent (St. Joseph), said it was good to see some of the PRESTIGE SCHOOLS involved in the EVOLUTION OF THE STEELBAND.

Now 69 -- and traveling the WORLD OVER tuning PANS -- Mr. Clarke recalled that as a s

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Right now while everybody have PANORAMA FEVER -- ANDY NARELL and ELLIE MANETTE are working on some PAN SAMPLES!!!

And with his vast musical background and education and his sophisticated musical ear for PAN -- these samples are going to become the PAN TONES of choice across the GLOBE. So some young music student sitting in the cold in NORWAY who has never ever s

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NO PAN on the ROAD FOR CARNIVAL ... But like TERRORISTS want to CONTROL TOWN

TTPS ON ALLEGED SECURITY THREAT

https://www.tv6tnt.com/news/7pmnews/ttps-on-alleged-security-threat/article_89aa1a34-0d27-11e8-a8af-67b41a3939d8.html

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Trinidad real JOKEY, yes!!! Mayor tells CARNIVAL REVELLERS: Don't pee on people's walls for Carnival!!!

Julien Neaves

Newsday January 31, 2018

"PORT of Spain Mayor Joel Martinez has asked Carnival patrons not to urinate on people’s walls."

Lord have Mercy!!! Reminds me of a line in JEAN and Dinah: When ah spread the news around is to see all dem CAVE M

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