NCC boss declares Panorama success

Published: TRINIDAD GUARDIAN

Monday, January 29, 2018

"National Carnival Commission chairman Colin Lucas was beaming, declaring success for the pan component of Carnival celebrations so far.

In an interview with T&T Guardian, he co

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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?

Newsday

Why no coverage of junior pan finals?

THE EDITOR: It is beyond disgraceful that not a single television or radio station saw it fit to broadcast the National Junior Panorama finals on Sunday.

This was a moment for our primary and secondary s

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

Trinidad Guardian

Tony Rakhal-Fraser

Published:

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Earl Rodney doesn’t feel he’s been given enough recognition for his accomplishments in the world of steelband.

Winning arranger of four out of eight attempts at Pano

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

Derek Achong

Published:

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 TRINIDAD GUARDIAN

"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
Daisy James-McClean

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

TRAFIC STOPPER: Exodus performing in St Augustine on Friday night.

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

Small steel band, Moods Steel Orchestra, is optimistic that they will advance to the Semi Final round of the National Panorama competition.

Leader, Roger Thomas, said the band encountered many challenges, but that didn't deter them from competing

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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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This Is Definitely The Year For Love

#StFrancisGirlsRC #YearForLove #FireGoBunDem

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Pan Trinbago boss (Keith Diaz): All systems in place for Savannah Party

Camille Clarke

Published:

Friday, January 26, 2018 TRINIDAD GUARDIAN

Diaz said Limbo, Calypso, Soca and the Groovy Soca were all different aspects of T&T’s culture and this needed to be marketed now.

“I can’t do it by myself and call for consulta

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KEITH DIAZ has unimpeachable power to run PAN TRINBAGO [and the NCC]

NOW everybody should be able to wake up and realize the POLITICAL and CULTURAL cards that this man holds in the LAND OF THE STEELBAND. Word on the ground is that he even has Colin Lucas under his thumb -- making him technically in charge of the NCC n

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NCC boss declares Panorama success

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

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

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

Newsday

Why no coverage of junior pan finals?

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

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

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

Female pan pioneer, 79, still going strong

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

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

Exodus stops traffic in St Augustine

Better Budgeting By TUCO

Despite Challenges, Moods Steel Orchestra Ready For Pan Semis

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

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

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

TTPS ON ALLEGED SECURITY THREAT

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

This Is Definitely The Year For Love

Pan Trinbago boss (Keith Diaz): All systems in place for Savannah Party

KEITH DIAZ has unimpeachable power to run PAN TRINBAGO [and the NCC]

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