African-American drum and bugle corps: then and now by Harold Craig Barber

For decades before the rise of the great Brooklyn steel orchestras, outstanding large drum and bugle corps were an integral part of all black neighborhoods and the black musical experience, particularly in Brooklyn. The late Max Roach (Brooklyn), and

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Doctors fear ‘ethical minefield’ of deciding who lives, dies from COVID [DEATH PANELS COMING TO TRINIDAD]

Guardian October 26, 2021

"With Intensive Care Unit spaces in the parallel healthcare system now almost gone, doctors are now closer to being placed in a position where they will have to choose who gets the critical, life-saving COVID-19 treatment. D

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PANTRINBAGO/ TUCO BACCHANAL- Factions team up to call for Elections

TV6 - Me Headlines

Trinidad and Tobago is the mecca of carnival so there's really no surprise whenever there's a bacchanal within anyone of the main organizations. Calypso and Steelpan birthed right here, have long with staples in the festival with v

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..it was the steel drum cover of Black Box's early '90s pop house cut, "Everybody Everybody "

Run for cover! It’s DJ Nu-Mark’s exclusive FREAKS ONLY mix

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Steelpan web documentary series A Better Tomorrow: Kareem Brown premieres Friday

Newsday - VEELA MUNGAL

Mark Loquan, left, and Kareem Brown -

Mark Loquan premieres a new six-part steelpan web documentary series on his YouTube channel on October 8. A couple months into the onset of the covid pandemic last year Loquan was inspire

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Attention, Pan Trinbago president

Aquil Arrindell San City Steel Symphony

To Ms Beverly Ramsey Moore, President of Pan Trinbago:

As we all know, the next Pan Trinbago election is constitutionally due between the time period September 1 to October 31, 2021.

At the end of October, ac

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Trying to put pandemic in pan’s way is putting democracy at risk

Dennise Demming - Wired868.com

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is now run by a non-elected normalisation committee appointed by the sport’s world umbrella body, The Federation of International Football Associations (Fifa).

Led by

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ExxonMobil ups Stabroek resource estimate to approximately 10 billion barrels [Well yuh think yuh could GO TO GUYANA and say yuh have OIL ... Yuh mad OH MEH LARD, OHHH!!!]

Stabroek News October 7, 2021

ExxonMobil has increased its estimate of the discovered recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana to approximately 10 billion oil-equivalent barrels. 

The updated resource estimate includes a new dis

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Pan Moving Forward Corrupt and Misleading Letter from South Central Regional Executive- PanTrinbago

Maurice Alexander

Pan Moving Forward Corrupt and Misleading Letter from South Central Regional Executive- PanTrinbago

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Don urges Nigerian Navy to develop steelpan music technology

The Nation

Nigeria - An Associate Professor of Music at the Lagos State University, Isaac Yekini-Ajenifuja, has challenged the Nigeria Navy Music School (NNMS), Ota, Ogun State to create a global unbeatable identity for itself with its knowledge o

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Congratulations to panist Nakiya Athina de Freitas on receiving her BA in Musical Arts

I'm happy to have taken this journey and I can't wait to see where the wind will blow me next. Who knows where I'll end up? But until then, I can proudly say... Nakiya A. de Freitas, BA in Musical Arts (Sp.) with First Class Honors. #UWI #UWISTA #Gra

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Local steel drum bands unite

September 21, 2021 by Anne Berleant on Arts & living, Lifestyle

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Local steel orchestra and its ‘De Panyard’ inspire underserved communities

WAVY.com

Norfolk, Virginia, USA - A Hampton Roads organization is working to bring music to underserved communities.

The Mosaic Steel Orchestra is a 501(c)(3) organization that teaches adults and kids how to play steelpan dru

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"...that sounds like steelband judging to me. But say what, she did us proud.”  Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley...

Trinidad Express Newspapers

“I am a little bit disappointed that Michelle didn’t get into the final but when you didn’t get in by ...one thousandth of a second, that sounds like steelband judging to me. But say what, she did us proud.”  Prime Minist

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NCF workshop sets the stage for Youth Steel Orchestra

NFC Newsdesk

The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) is well underway to rekindling the National Youth Steel Orchestra in time for a grand performance in November. Last Friday, September 3, sixty students separated in groups of 10s, completed a three

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Pan Trinbago Celebrates Pan Month in August with a Series of Virtual Events

A month long calendar of events will mark this year’s commemoration of Pan Trinbago’s Pan Month in August marking the anniversary of the declaration of the steelpan as the national instrument of Trinidad & Tobago.

 

This year’s celebration is a doub

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"This President has failed us in the worst way, having refused to provide the membership with any financial accountability since taking office in 2018, and is now hell bent on remaining in office ...

... at any cost so she can further destroy our organisation."

from a posting by MR. ROBERT HERNANDEZ!!!

But the most relevant question is what is MR. HERNANDEZ and AQUIL ARRINDELL and GERARD MENDEZ and GREGORY LINDSAY (I cannot put BERTEL GITTENS and

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Illegal postponement of Pan Trinbago’s constitutionally mandated elections

From the news desk of:: Robert Hernandez

1 September 2021

To: ALL MEMBER BANDS OF PAN TRINBAGO
ALL BAND MEMBERS AND PLAYERS

Ref: “Illegal postponement of Pan Trinbago’s constitutionally mandated elections”

We write to you with grave concern regard

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GREGORY LINDSAY TO ORGANIZE FACEBOOK LIVE to bring the PAN PUBLIC up to speed on PAN TRINBAGO POLITICS

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THE CARLAN HAREWOOD and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE STORY!!! A man quite from SANGRE GRANDE see me crying DISCRMINATION and he send me THE WHOLE STORY ...

Now this is a WHOLE LONG STORY and I have to put it out in PARTS like a TELEVISION SERIES.

This is my OPENING EPISODE!!!

WHY CARLAN HAREWOOD WAS REMOVED AS VP OF PAN TRINBAGO

 

AVERAGE SALARY: $196,000.00 PER ANNUM FOR THE OFFICE OF THE VP

During th

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