Well the VICE PRESIDENTIAL PICK is down to TWO "JAMAICAN" WOMEN: HARRIS and RICE!!!

... and RICE may have the inside edge because she is getting a big bounce from Obama people who claim her presence on the ticket would guarantee the enthusiastic presence of both Barack and Michelle Obama on the campaign trail.

And those who follow p

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Calypso Icon Sir Rupert “King Swallow” Philo Dies

Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Calypso and Cultural Icon Sir Rupert “King Swallow” Philo has died.

Sir Rupert has been ill for some time now but his cause of death is not known.

It was just last month in August that champion steelband arranger Khan Co

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DAMN!!! I ain't worried about THE COVID as much as I am WORRIED about how they are going to BURN DOWN THE WHOLE OF BG (GUYANA)

That is REALLY DEPRESSING!!!

And I had a VISION that they could become THE WORLD LEADER IN STEELDRUM MUSIC!!!

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How come NOBODY eh tell me that BROOKLYN J'OUVERT went BLM. With all THE COVID I did not even know that it had any PARADE this year ...

New York Post September 9, 2020

Sixth shooting victim of Brooklyn J’Ouvert celebration comes forward

"A sixth victim in the senseless bloodshed during the J’Ouvert celebration on Labor Day came forward Wednesday, according to police sources.

The 38-y

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Antigua & Barbuda Pan Association - ABPA

Pan A&B (ABPA) presents panorama flashback, featuring Hells Gate Steel Orchestra 2019 championship performance, playing the tune "fire under me foot" sung by the Burning Flames and arranged by Khan Cordice

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Pan in a major way

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

image:  Isaac Lee

AS TOLD TO BC PIRES

Global - My name is Liam Teague and the steelpan made me whatever I am today.

I’m originally from San Fernando. I grew up in an extremely humble background in a very problematic area

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Toronto Caribbean Carnival keeps spirit of celebration, community solidarity alive in face of pandemic - Pan Fantasy Steelband

CBC News

Toronto, Canada - ....For Wendy Jones, the month of July is usually filled with the rhythmic sounds of steel pans and performances throughout the city on Carnival's biggest stages. Jones has been playing steel pan since the '70s and is the

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Happy Birthday to Junior “Mann” Samuel

New York, USA - When Steel Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to Junior “Mann” Samuel, founder and manager of champion band Radoes Steel Orchestra in New York.

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Pan Month goes on despite pandemic

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Every August for the last 28 years Pan Trinbago has used the month of August to observe and celebrate pan.

This year despite challenges posed by COVID-19,, is no different. Pan Month will hon

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KFC Trinidad Getting Dragged for Celebrating Emancipation Day With a Chicken Drum-Black Fist Image Is So 2020

The Root

Booooooy, some of these corporations really need to get out of the pseudo activism business because many of them just can’t seem to do anything right—in America or abroad.

KFC Trinidad and Tobago is apologizing for its ill-advised decision

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Is WAR among the PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE -- BEVERLEY MUST ACT NOW ... WITH A HEAVY HAND!!!

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The very least that BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE could do is to reach out for help from some GOOD LAWYERS and let them draw up a NEW CONSTITUTION for PAN TRINBAGO ... MENDEZ eh giving up on THIS WAR ...

... so why waste the NEXT YEAR fighting with them THREE MAN RAT every day. You are not from TOWN and you don't understand the PAN CULTURE in TRINIDAD -- so this was an INEVITABLE ENDING.

Save the day BEVERLEY!!! Either STEP DOWN or take some DECISIVE

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Google announces 100,000 scholarships for online certificates in data analytics, project management and UX

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Staten Island politician Joe Borelli demands end to West Indian Day Parade, citing cuts to NYPD

Caribbean Life

New York, USA - A Staten Island councilman is calling for the end to Brooklyn’s popular West Indian Day Parade and all of its annual coinciding activities — arguing that it requires a “beefed up and visible police presence” the NYPD

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Tuning Up With Khuent Rose

An educator, composer, steelpanner, and tuner, Khuent Rose is a busy man. When describing how he has navigated creative life during the pandemic, he compares himself to Sylvester Stallone’s celebrated antihero.

In mid-March and early April, the Crow

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[TRINIDAD PRIME MINISTER] Rowley in self-quarantine after coming into contact with COVID-19 person

Guardian August 21, 2020

"Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has been tested for COVID-19 and would be in self-quarantine.

This after it was revealed he had had contact with someone on election night who tested positive for the virus.

Dr Rowley made the

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'Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman has died

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Cold Steel Pan Orchestra on Alaska "Almost" Live

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Bahamas closes borders to US travelers over coronavirus concerns - COVID-19

By Tamar LapinJuly

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BREAKING NEWS: PPP/C’s Irfaan Ali sworn-in as President [of GUYANA]

iNEWS GUYANA August 2, 2020

"Dr Irfaan Ali of the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has been sworn-in as Guyana’s 9th Executive President, bringing an end to a record-breaking prolonged electoral process that was driven by the incumbent APNU/AF

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