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"One Love: How Reggae Music Inspired The World" [The MUSIC COGNOSCENTI in TRINIDAD have no clue how much WORK and DEDICATION went into making REGGAE a GLOBAL PHENOMENON]

The MUSIC COGNOSCENTI in TRINIDAD want to believe that JAMAICANS went to sleep one night and woke up next morning to discover that REGGAE MUSIC had become a GLOBAL PHENOMENON. So they are dreaming dreams that they will wake up tomorrow and 50 MILLION

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If any CARIBBEAN COUNTRY wants to LAY CLAIM to having one of the BEST HEALTH-CARE SYSTEMS in THE WORLD -- it has to be NEVIS-ST. KITTS!!!

15 COVID-19 CASES and ZERO DEATHS!!!

Hey, NUMBERS DON'T LIE -- RIGHT!!!

I am still QUITE INTRIGUED as to how THE CARIBBEAN escaped the CHINESE LEASHED-UPON-THE-WORLD VIRUS!!!

Ah leave out "FOR CHINA WORLD DOMINATION" in my QUALIFIER!!!

ST. KITTS eh

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Stories of steel — the future of the steelpan | Panorama

Caribbean Beat

Carnival is the season of steelpan. But behind the Panorama stage, the future of T&T’s national musical instrument will be shaped by administrators, craftspeople, arrangers, and educators — like these men and women profiled by writer S

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[GUYANA] Recount ‘completely acceptable’ for declaration of result -- CARICOM observers say in report

Stabroek News June 16, 2020

"In a blistering report the three-person scrutinizing team from CARICOM declared that the National Recount of votes and by extension the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections were sufficiently transparent to reflect

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Greensboro native Tracy Thornton's steel pan resonates worldwide

News & Record

Greensboro, North Carolina, USA - When Tracy Thornton first heard the banging in his head, he hammered it out on heavy metal, beating it into shape with a variety of local headbangers. But a chance encounter with Calypso percussion in

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The horrific Notting Hill murder of Kelso Cochrane and why Carnival can never be cancelled

61 years ago a black man was murdered in a racist attack still unsolved today

More than 1,000 people lined Ladbroke Grove for the funeral of Kelso Cochrane (picture inset) in 1959

On this day 61 years ago, a murder took place in London that forced B

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STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: When i saw THE BEV come to TRINIDAD and join forces with the EVIL THREE -- I grunt like ah hog in pain because I know what sweet in GOAT MOUTH ...

Now THE COVID have THE BEV lockdown in TOBAGO and them 3 VAGABONDS trying to usurp power from LA JEFA.

GERARD MENDEZ always had dreams of becoming THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO  -- and now he is trying DESPERATELY to undermine THE PRESIDENT.

DAN

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While the other members of the PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE were sheltering from COVID 19 -- MARCUS ASH was BUSY WORKING. On Friday he is producing a PAN TELETHON in collaboration with WACK RADIO ...

... now MARCUS ASH did not have AS BIG A BUDGET as EXODUS STEELBAND had to produce their so-called INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY COMPETITION. But I will not be surprised to see him attract MORE VIEWERS to his PAN TELETHON than EXODUS in THEIR FINALS on S

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Carnival 2021 on - Trinidad and Tobago

Barring any major change in the COVID-19 trends locally, masqueraders can look forward to carnival 2021. As of now, the greatest show on earth will not be cancelled, but it’s likely many international visitors won’t be allowed into the country

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Pan Trinbago CEO fires office manager [So why can't BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE FIRE THE THREE HUSTLERS?]

WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE 2018

"PAN Trinbago CEO Keith Diaz told the organisation’s secretary yesterday that he was fired as office manager. In a letter to Richard Forteau, Diaz wrote: “With immediate effect you are to cease carrying out the functions of man

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Pan Ramajay is back after 16 years

Newsday - Melissa Doughty

Natasha Joseph, playing the double tenor, was "the first female to enter the Pan Ramajay competition in 1994." -

The participants will be judged on verse, chorus; melodic/motivic development; harmonic/rhythmic embellishment;

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Wiemer-Hastings - Steelband Bass player receives Palmer Family scholarship

Daily Chroicle

Sycamore, Illinois, USA – Jesse Wiemer-Hastings, a graduate of DeKalb High School, is the recipient of the 2020 Palmer Family Music Education Scholarship award.

Historically, the scholarship recipient is honored at the first DeKalb M

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Rebecca – A Carnival Symphony

Global -  Rebecca – A Carnival Symphony

Listening to Desperadoes perform Clive Bradley’s arrangement of “Rebecca” never gets stale. The opening statement continues to capture the soul. That spellbinding run at the end of the introduction is always ex

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FIERY PROTESTS ACROSS PORT-OF-SPAIN [BLACK LIVES DOH MATTER WHEN BLACK POLICE SHOOT DOWN BLACK PEOPLE ... NO MONEY IN THAT]

Guardian Right Now

Fiery protests in and around Port-of-Spain this morning, as east Port-of-Spain, Laventille, Morvant and Beetham residents call for the intervention of the National Security Minister and the Commissioner of Police following the sho

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The new Carnival: Stakeholders make changes for post-covid19

Newsday - 

Melissa Doughty

A BPTT Renegades pannist during the band's 2020 Panorama final performance at Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain on February 22. PHOTO BY WARREN LE PLATTE. -

The covid19 pandemic has brought many challenges across the Ca

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BLM debate: Not always black and white in TRINIDAD and TOBAGO

Newsday June 14, 2020

"In TT, people define “black” differently. Some people believe black people are “anyone not white" (Caucasian) while others include people of Syrian/Lebanese descent in the “white” category. Some group both Afro-and Indo-Trinida

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North Kensington steel pan band giving virtual shows amid carnival cancellation

An award winning band has created a virtual Panyard to give performances during lockdown

The Metronomes Steel Orchestra has started a virtual Panyard to interact with the community from their homes (Image: Metronomes Steel Orchestra)

The cancellati

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Panmotion concerts to keep panists online

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Panmotion is the brainchild of Tobago panist Nevin Roach. He is also known for his Instagram pan competition, Panograma. -

He first brought Panograma, the Instagram pan competition held during the height of covid19 restric

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HURRICANE FLOYD

(painting by Dan Lacey)

HURRICANE FLOYD - a mytho-poetic reading of current events.
by Rubadiri Victor

For those of us who believe such things
the turning point was when,
in those last moments,
facing the inevitable,
George Floyd called upon his An

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EARL RICHARDS: How come EVERYBODY DOING SOMETHING to promote their product in these COVID TIMES except BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and PAN TRINBAGO? And she does get about $25 MILLION every year from ROWLEY

Earl: Ah see ah BIG BIG COMEDY show coming up this weekend to raise funds for CHILDREN COVID VICTIMS. But still I cannot hear ONE WORD from BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and PAN TRINBAGO. And of course you see how HEAVILY-INVOLVED  I am PROMOTING the  INTERN

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