The Melodians Steel Orchestra UK performs for the UK's Royal family

The Melodians Steel Orchestra UK played at the Commonwealth Day Service in Westminster Abbey on 9th March 2020. They played a tune called Commonwealth Melody written for the Melodians by Robert Thompson of Arima, Trinidad and Tobago. There were man

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POLITICS and COVID-19

In California, THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO is the SPRINGBOARD for STATEWIDE and NATIONAL POLITICS.

NANCY PELOSI, DIANE FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS, BARBARA BOXER, GAVIN NEWSOM, WILLIE BROWN -- all gained NATIONAL POLITICAL STATURE from their SAN FRANCISCO

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PANdemic - When nobody wants you!! -- Lessons in and for Pan - Remember who your friends are...

CNN

Virus-hit cruise ship MS Braemar docks in Cuba after Caribbean odyssey

(CNN) — A British-operated cruise ship left stranded in the Caribbean when people aboard became sick with coronavirus has finally docked in Cuba after a fraught search for a

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Bugs: I am NEVER TALKING TO YOU AGAIN on THIS FORUM!!! Yuh gone with your EXPONENTIAL STORY and encourage ALL THEM GOVERNORS and MAYORS to LOCK DOWN THEIR PEOPLE ...

... and now I CANNOT leave THE HOUSE ... because of YOU.

EVERY POLITICIAN trying to PIMP THE CORONA for their OWN POLITICAL GAIN ... and I have to STAY HOME.

285+ PEOPLE DEAD SO FAR ... out of 333,000,000 ... ah doh even think my calculator could cal

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Guyana Elections: Diplomats walk out of tabulation process

Inews Guyana March 13, 2020

Members of the Diplomatic Community including US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah Ann Lynch; British High Commissioner to Guyana Greg Quin; and Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana, Lilian Chaterjee have walked out of the Offi

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Mary leads Providence Girls'

Rachael Espinet - Newsday

Sister Vanesa Manzano of the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny's Providence Convent in Belmont is also a dean at Providence Girls' Catholic School. - ANGELO_MARCELLE

The dean of discipline, she said, "was there to manage and

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Rush for flour, bread, cellphones in Tobago [And TOBAGO PAN PLAYERS cannot even afford to buy SALT with their BOUNCED CHECKS]

Guardian March 22, 2020

Tobagonians have started stocking up on cellular phones, radios, flour and bread.

Mohammed Nasir Uddin, who operates Mumtaz Enterprises at the Gulf City Mall, Lowlands, said customers had started acquiring phones, cables, batt

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“Don’t panic; prepare…” [Message to Caribbean people]

Guardian March 16, 2020

Speaking on Monday at the T&T Chamber of Commerce’s conference—Combatting COVID-19, Is your workplace ready?—Dr Eldonna Boisson, Advisor on Disease Surveillance and Epidemiology for PAHO and the World Health Organisation (WHO

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US, UK, Canada, EU say Region Four results not credible -- [WHAT A DAY!!!]

Stabroek News March 5, 2020

"The envoys of the US, UK, Canada and the European Union today said the full count of Region Four’s elections results was not completed and they questioned the credibility of the results released today by GECOM."

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COVID-19 patients improving [Has TRINIDAD turned the corner?]

Guardian March 14, 2020

[Doctor]Trotman assured, "Eighty per cent of us will get better and those that will not get better are the people who have some reason why they won’t get better. We already know who to look for.

"Not every sniffle, not every c

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I have never SEEN MYSELF as a CARIBBEAN MAN -- I have always seen MYSELF as a TRINIDADIAN ... but something about the GUYANA OIL SCENE had brought me to a CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE ...

... that I was LOOKING FORWARD TO with so MUCH HOPE. So as I follow the NEGATIVE DRAMA of the elections in that COUNTRY TODAY -- I have to say that this is the FIRST DAY that I have been REALLY DEPRESSED in DECADES. MAN OH MAN -- this was SUCH A GRE

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Reboot - Panist Sergio Boré, percussionist, featured in the Brazilian Times

by Ari Mendes 

Sergio Boré, percussionist, composer, researcher, spiritual and creator of musical nuances.

One of the most recognized Brazilian percussionists. We met at the height of the "peace and love" era, hippie hippie, practitioners of a code o

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All Stars elders pay tribute to Jules

GARY CARDINEZ - Newsday

Members of the All Stars Garret Elders gathered at the Duke Street panyard. - GARY CARDINEZ

WHEN the men of All Stars Garret Elders (AGE) held their annual gathering at the Massy All Stars panyard on Duke Street in Port of S

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-- Robotics in Guyana

Claude & ODW  --Look at the 4:00 minute mark

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Tension over [Guyana] poll results puts business at standstill in city, other areas [I was worried about this!!!]

Starbroek News March 4, 2020

"Many businesses in the capital and other parts of the country remained closed yesterday as the nation awaited the results of Monday’s general and regional elections.

Since the close of polls on Monday evening, a tense

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Demming: Thanks, but no thanks Mr Prime Minister; George St no place for Despers

Dennise Demming

Desperadoes Steel Orchestra is in no position to refuse the generosity of the prime minister, but the population can. We can tell Dr Keith Rowley that the reasons Despers left the ‘Hill’ are still with us and may even be more deeply e

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The Last Panman

by Willi Chen - Guardian

"This is all ah have. Take it —thir­ty-two cents."

"Dat can’t even buy chan­na. Is pas­sage mon­ey ah want. And is stale bake them chirren tak­ing to school to­mor­row.

"Well, leh them stay home, where I could be near them.

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STEELPAN PLAYER – VICTIM of COVID-19

Everybody’s Magazine

New York, USA - The steelband fraternity in Brooklyn, NY is mourning the passing of Hansel Leon, a victim of COVID-19. “Hanny” as he was popularly called promoted steelpan music in the U.S. for almost four decades. He was once m

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Hansel “Hanny” Leon Remembered - by Garvin Blake

by Garvin Blake

New York, USA - When Hansel “Hanny” Leon passed on March 25, 2020, Brooklyn lost a beat. He was the most tireless ironman I have ever heard. Hanny played his iron, a piece of metal that’s central to Trinidad’s music, anywhere, every

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Bugs: Like people does read YUH POSTINGS quite in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ... once yuh make yuh point yuh cause PANIC BUYING way out here ...

KGO SAN FRANCISCO

'It's all gone': Fears over coronavirus fuel panic buying at Bay Area stores

PANIC BUYING: Have you been to Costco lately? Shoppers at one Bay Area location said they were told to expect an hour and half to two hour wait just to get

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