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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Two schools have received steel pans to aid in the holistic development of students once classes resume on September 1.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education Dr Lovell Francis and advisor to the Minist
Read more…As a man who likes to SPECULATE -- I think that she will PUNT THE BALL DOWNFIELD.
I can't go to sleep until 4 PM allyuh time tomorrow --hope she DOES THE RIGHT THING ... but I see it as a LONGSHOT!!!
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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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
Read more…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
Read more…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, 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
Read more…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
Read more…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.
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Read more…... 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
Read more…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
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
Read more…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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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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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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