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Pan in danger -- no-holds-barred interview with Beverly Ramsey-Moore

Newsday

...For Beverly Ramsey-Moore, manager of the Tobago-based Petrotrin KatFor Beverly Ramsey-Moore, manager of the Tobago-based Petrotrin Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra, the panmen’s call for the Diaz-led Pan Trinbago to step down from office is j

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Panorama Update - C News

Pantrinbago's acting president is hopeful that following this Tuesday's meeting with pan men, the 2017 Panorama competition will start on Friday. Two days later than originally planned.

Cnews spoke with Acting President Richard Forteau this afternoo

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Pan Trinbago Boss -- Diaz doing well after surgery

Newsday

Embattled Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz is progressing well following emergency heart surgery on Friday, sources said yesterday.

“He is doing good,” the source told Sunday Newsday.

He said Diaz’s surgery was successful so much so that he

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Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz Hospitalized

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Bands pulling out of Panorama as disenchantment grows

Loop News

There is word today that some bands have begun pulling out of Panorama

News Power Now understands that this is as a direct result of the controversy surrounding players and the PanTrinbago executive.

Over the past few weeks, players have be

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The National Carnival Commission (NCC), will control all financial income via the gates of all national carnival shows

Trinidad Newsday

NCC Chairman, Kenny de Silva said yesterday: “We are coming out with a joint statement tomorrow, indicating that the NCC will be handling the gates for the carnival shows and we’ll be doing an audit after, and the Special Interest Gr

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De Silva Talks about Plans for Carnival 2017

Kenny De Sliva, the Chairman of the National Carnival Commission, came to Good Morning Trinidad and Tobago today to talk about his plans for Carnival 2017. De Silva covered the use of the Socadrome, Panorama and the promotion of traditional mas in hi

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Laborie opens 2017 with two major cultural events

Press Release:-13 January 2017. The Laborie Steel Pan made history in 2016 when it became Panorama Champion.

The Laborie Pan Project – the steel band’s parent programme at Labowi Promotions – is making history again by hosting the first edition of a

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panmenare under paid

panmen should get $1000, and Crachshots should get $2000,     they earned that, to have that ability   pay the panmen for their worth, the same way they pay the arramgers for their worth,  

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Overseas based Guyanese contributes steel pans to St. Roses and North Ruimveldt Secondary Schools

Guyana Information Agency

Georgetown, Guyana, S.A. -  Over the last five years, there has been a boost in the appreciation and participation in steel pan music. A committed investment has been made on a yearly basis for the provision of three steel

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Pan official quits, slams ‘lavish spending’

Trinidad Express

“From interim to elected I requested on more than one occasion some transparency with the financial accounts of the organisation from the treasury, specifically, all accounts and balances and updates if possible for all monthly statu

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Children Take the Streets of Frederiksted

St. Croix Source

Frederiksted, U.S.V.I. - With an assortment of majorettes, marching bands, historical references and story book characters, this year’s parade drew rounds of applause from the spectators who braved the blazing sun to support the isla

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Issuing of cheques suspended

...Several band leaders and pannists claimed they were “embarrassed” when they went to the banks to cash cheques and were told they had “bounced cheques”.

Forteau said: “People were not following instructions. We instructed the regional chairpersons

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Dane Gulston’s Protest and the Future of Steelpan’s Mecca

We sat down with Dane Gulston on Thursday to talk about his protest against Pan Trinbago, with the intentions of getting a deeper understanding of the issues that incited the protest and what change is being pushed for, either from Pan Trinbago or a

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Pannists demand the resignation of the Keith Diaz led executive.

Newsday

Concerns arose that pannists had not been paid, against a backdrop of Culture Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly saying the allocation had been sent to Pan Trinbago, against claims that Pan Trinbago is $30 million in debt and concerns about Pan Tr

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All Stars Gives Thanks -- C News

Before getting into the Carnival Hype, One Steel band likes to prepare themselves spiritually. On Sunday members of the All Stars Steel Band had a thanksgiving service at the Holy Rosary Church in Port-of-Spain. This is the 23rd year that the group

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Pan Trinbago head suffers heart attack - Update

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz yesterday underwent an angioplasty procedure after suffering a heart attack, Pan Trinbago’s secretary Richard Forteau informed Newsday yesterday. He is currently

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As pan protest looms Panmen mull over new Panorama event

Trinidad Guardian

Panmen are expected to stage a placard demonstration outside Pan Trinbago office on Park Street, Port-of-Spain, tomorrow, demanding the immediate resignation president Keith Diaz and his entire executive.

And for the 2017 Carnival s

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Government has clipped the wings of Pan Trinbago.

Trinidad and Tobago Guardian

Govt closes financial tap

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Government has clipped the wings of Pan Trinbago. The steelband body, now mired in financial mess, will no longer be the sole authority in charge of the Panorama competi

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Panmen to march tomorrow

Trinidad Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan players say they intend to take to the streets tomorrow to show their dissatisfaction with pan’s governing body, Pan Trinbago.

From noon, the players are expected to head to Pan Trinbago’s office at Par

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