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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Pan as icon: preserving, claiming, marketing (Part I)

By Dorbrene O’Marde

Before adding my contributions to this discussion on ‘Pan as Icon – preserving, claiming, marketing,’ let me be quick to acknowledge my limitations on this subject and give a view as to ‘where I am coming from.’

I am not a panman/

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ADDRESS TO THE NATION TONIGHT (By the PRIME MINISTER) on CNC3 at 7:30 PM tonight ...

... as you ALL KNOW, people does send me ALL KINDA TING to post. So I am making THIS POST and I want to make it QUITE CLEAR that these are NOT MY OPINIONS. This is just A DUTY that I am performing -- but THE MOTHER LAND is my FIRST LOVE so I have to

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Chiquinha Gonzaga - Women in Music

Chiquinha Gonzago established a career for herself as a professional musician in nineteenth century Brazil at a time when it was widely considered scandalous to do so. Gonzaga became Brazil's first professional female conductor and composed over

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Chairman: Despers will always be Laventille band

Desperadoes Steel Orchestra manager Dr Finbar Fletcher awaits the arrival of band members and supporters to start the band's victory motorcade at the Desperadoes panyard on Tragarete Road, Port of Spain on Sunday. - Vidya Thurab

It does not matter

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Music Festival makes sweeping changes

Paula Lindo - Newsday

category. - 
Jubilant members of the Scarborough Methodist Primary School after they won in the Primary Schools folk choir category in 2018. category. -

The 33rd Biennial TT Music Festival has made sweeping changes to its comp

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T&T gets first case of coronavirus COVID-19

Guardian March 12, 2020

"Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rance Deyals­ingh has con­firmed the first case of coro­n­avirus COVID-19 in Trinidad and To­ba­go."

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OBAMA warn TRUMP about a coming PANDEMIC -- TRUMP EH LISTEN!!!

Politico March 16, 2020

[bugs: make sure you read this!!!]

"Seven days before Donald Trump took office, his aides faced a major test: the rapid, global spread of a dangerous virus in cities like London and Seoul, one serious enough that some countrie

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CUBA USES 'WONDER DRUG' TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUS AROUND WORLD DESPITE U.S. SANCTIONS

BY TOM O'CONNOR - Newsday

Cuba has mobilized its medical corps around the world to distribute a new "wonder drug" that officials there say is capable of treating the new coronavirus despite the United States' strict sanctions that continue to pressur

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How long will New York’s coronavirus lockdown last? Could the "cure" become worse than the disease?

New York Post March 20, 2020

"The costs for some will be absolutely brutal: Lots of people are now concerned that they won’t be able to put food on the table after a week or two. Policymakers at all levels of government are grappling with how to put

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RonaFever -- A Khuent Rose Public Service Announcement

Required Listening - RonaFever 

I do this to ease the tension of our situation, not to ridicule those suffering-
whether from infection or hysteria. ...Khuent Rose

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