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Winners of the Governor General Award For Literary Excellence: Shakirah Bourne (In Time Of Need) and Winston Farrell (Barefoot On Ice).
Some may not know you were a competent track and field athlete, had entered two pagean
Read more…10: Asami Nagakiya, 30, Japanese musician, strangled
Nagakiya may have not been a world renown musician but her death made headlines everywhere when she was found strangled to death in Port of Spain. This Japanese steel pan player's body was found un
by Maria Murriel -- Public Radio International
Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago is celebrated with colorful, feathered, sequined costumes. Last week the capital city's mayor said it was these costumes, an international symbol of the festival, that we
Read more…Jessie Moniz Hardy -- The Royal Gazette - Bermuda
Working on a cruise ship isn’t for everyone. The travel is constant and the work can be intense.
Steel pan player Robert Symons got hooked in 1989 and hasn’t looked back. His latest gig was on Oceani
Read more…REMEMBERING ASAMI
STATEMENT by several Heads of Mission and representatives from International Organizations located in Trinidad and Tobago:
We wish to first and foremost extend our condolences to the family and many friends of Asami, and to expre
By FRANCIS CARR Jr.
WILTON -- While growing up on the island of Trinidad, Norwalker Donna Rogers-Jones and her brother Robert were discouraged from playing the percussion instrument known to Trinidadians as a steelpan.
The instrument, fashioned from
Read more…Written by Henry Lipput -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pugliano is a consultant, business development specialist, trainer, and also a musician. “I’ve played the steel pan -- which is the basis of my organization Barrels To Beethoven -- probably since
Read more…Trinidad Newsday
A JAPANESE cruise ship, ‘Asuka II’, arrived yesterday on its inaugural visit to Trinidad and Tobago — nine days after Japanese national Asami Nagakiya was found strangled on Ash Wednesday under a large tree at the Queen’s Park Savann
Read more…By Susan Mohammed
FOREIGN delegates and heads of missions of international organisations yesterday held a memorial for slain Japanese pannist Asami Nagakiya in Port of Spain.
The representatives laid a wreath on the spot in the Queen’s Park Savannah,
Shereen Ali - Trinidad Guardian
There were many high points in last Saturday’s Champs
Read more…Forbes / Lifestyle
Trinidad Carnival is serious business.
No, really. The star-studded annual bacchanal kicking off next week, attracting upwards of 40,000 revelers, including the likes of Jay-Z and Richard Branson, is an intricately staged set of su
Read more…"....Another way to track the spread of immigration from the West Indies in particular is to look at the growing prevalence of steelpan drum groups in the U.S....."
....Former Attorney General Eric Holder’s family emigrated from Barbados, before he
Read more…http://www.cnc3.co.tt/press-release/how-trinidad-and-tobago-won-three-grammys-last-night
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2016-02-16/use-gram
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(Photo: Donna Terek / The Detroit News)
At his Detroit studio, Caribbean Mardi Gras Productions, Ralph Taylor has cleared away the giant Carnival costumes he designs and dusted off a dozen sets of steel drums he’d had in storage for years.
He
A local high school band ensemble has been selected as one just a few groups to play in Charleston in the coming weeks.
John Marshall High School Band Director Tracey Filben says she submitted for the Steel Drum Band to play an enti
Read more…By Joy Vann
Correspondent
On a recent Saturday, while many teens enjoyed an unusually warm and sunny day outside, students from around Hampton Roads gathered to bang on metal drums.
They were learning to make music, keeping tradition alive and build
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - After a 16-year wait and with a new arranger leading them, Desperadoes Steel Orchestra at 2.55 a.m. yesterday captured their 11th National Panorama Championship (Large Conventional Band category).
Supporters of the band f
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A steel pan band will bring the sounds of the Caribbean to London for a charity talent contest.
The Finchley Music Steel Band Orchestra will be competing in the North London’s Got Talent contest, presented by North London Hospice, on Saturday Februa
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MAHOPAC, N.Y. -- It may be February, but Mahopac High School’s steel-drum band brought the warmth of the islands to Fulmar Road Elementary School when they performed recently for students.
Bringing a calypso-like feel to songs such as “Brown Eyed Gi
Read more…Port of Spain Corporation
City Administration Department,
City Hall
February 13 2016
MEDIA RELEASE
I have noted the continued outrage and hurt over statements attributed to me. I deeply regret the consequences of these statements, and I apologise
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