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National Budget Trinidad & Tobago 2022

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A call to action – Speak up NOW to STOP this assault on your constitutional rights.

From the news desk of:: Robert Hernandez

To: Leaders of the Steelband Movement

       Steel Pan Players and Supporters.

The recent announcement by the Central Executive Committee of Pan Trinbago that the “2021 Convention & Annual General Meeting

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Stamford Symphony announces partnership with Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras

Students of the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras.

Contributed by Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras

Starting in October, Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras (GCTYO) students will be able to audition to form string quartets and receive weekl

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DESPOTIC RULE at Pan Trinbago! MASS RESIGNATIONS & ILLEGAL SUSPENSIONS by Robert Hernandez

DESPOTIC RULE at Pan Trinbago! MASS RESIGNATIONS & ILLEGAL SUSPENSIONS.

To: Members of the Central Executive

      All Bandleaders and Band Members

 

I am writing to you in response to the email notice sent to all member bands yesterday October 18,

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Gillian Nathaniel-Balintulo, a gift of musical joy

PAULA LINDO - Newsday

Musician and composer Gillian Nathaniel-Bartulino - Photo courtesy St Joseph Convent Port of Spain Past Pupils' Association

Musician and composer Gillian Nathaniel-Balintulo is remembered as someone who brought the gift of joy

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BBC to launch regional HD channels at last, no more steel band during local news

Rik Henderson, Senior news editor · 28 September 2021 · News

(Pocket-lint) - The BBC will launch regional variants of BBC One in HD from October.

That means we will finally be able to view local BBC News on the regular BBC One HD channel on Freeview

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Clive Bradley - The Master has passed

New York - Master steelband music arranger Clive Bradley passed away today, November 26th 2005 in Trinidad. The revered musician recently celebrated his 69th birthday. He was a father, a scholar, a gentleman, a teacher, a fi

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PanNotation - Launch Day - Mia Gormandy-Benjamin

Mia Gormandy-Benjamin

Wow! When I think about the work we have done over the past 4 years to get to this point, I cannot help but get emotional. This started off as a simple conversation and turned into an entire online platform that is set out to be

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Ramsey-Moore tells Govt: Do more to develop panyards

Newsday
Tobago West MP Shamfa Cudjoe, third from left, cuts the ribbon to open the refurbished Tobago Pan-Thers Steel Orchestra Pan Theatre at Seaview Trace, Golden Lane, on Sunday. Also present were (from left) Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey

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Congratulations to panist & performing artist Tiajuana Hernandez on receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree

Congratulations to Tiajuana Hernandez from When Steel Talks

More on Tiajuana Hernandez

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No Pan in 2022 -- Jay-Z didn't get Kap a job, but he booked his friends for the halftime show

By Carron J. Phillips -- Dead Spin

Since that day, America experienced a summer in 2020 during which basically all of sports kneeled. Derek Chauvin even got into the act as he kneeled for nearly 10 minutes on George Floyd’s neck, which resulted in h

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AG focuses on making T&T a non-stop fete attraction

Guardian October 1, 2021

The Office of the Attorney General is moving towards cashing in on this country’s fete culture. On Friday, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi likened Trinidad and Tobago to Ibiza, an island just off Spain in the Mediterranean Sea

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THE ANATOMY OF MIAMI CARNIVAL 2021

Panorama

Enjoy pulsating energy and breathtaking music from Trinidadian steelpan — the unofficial instrument of the Caribbean — while witnessing the exciting battle of the bands at Panorama. The event is a major highlight of Carnival where people com

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Trini producer looks at where pan gone in new documentary

Laura Dowrich-Phillips - ttLOOP

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Phase II welcomes Government’s announcement for the re-opening of the Entertainment Sector

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Although there has been no definitive word from major stakeholders regarding plans for this country’s annual carnival festivities in 2022, band leader for HADCO Phase II Pan Groove, Lennox Boogsie Sharpe and his team, contin

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Miami Carnival Tried an Ambitious Masking Plan — But Almost Nobody Masked

Rolling Stone

“[A mask mandate] doesn’t necessarily mean that once you are inside, that it’s something you have to do,” one reveler told Rolling Stone.

On a searing Saturday afternoon, a massive crowd in neon beach attire bounces in unison to bass-

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He’s De Pan Man

Born into a legacy of steel, musician covers from bhajans to gospel

HE’S only 24 but pannist Joshua Regrello is already making waves with his first album De Pan Man.

Regrello has a lust for life and it shows in his music. If you are not a pan lover

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Pan Trinbago responds to Trinidad Express Newspapers - Treasurer has NOT RESIGNED

One of our Trustees (Mr. Gerard Mendez) has tendered his resignation. This Trustee has not been functioning in this role and therefore, his resignation does not impact the functions of our organization.
Our functioning Central Executive members (INCL

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Carib Brewery celebrates 70 years of premium beers

Newsday

Drinks in the air: Singer/Songwriter Kerwin Du Bois hoists his beer in the air during the shooting of the Can You Feel It video as part of Carib’s rebranding and launch of Carib Blue. PHOTOS COURTESY CARIB -

For 70 years, Carib has been inte

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Pan Trinbago elections cancelled: Fuad gives Ramsey-Moore deadline to respond to legal letter

Anna-Lisa Paul - T&T Guardian

Former chairman of the Eastern Region of Pan Trinbago Vernon Morancie, left keeps Frauf Abu Bakr outside during the Pan Trinbago media conference

Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore and the central executive c

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