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Well before we get too much deeper into the PANORAMA SEASON (small bands start in a few days) -- I think we need to RESHUFFLE that EXECUTIVE; so I am calling on the VEE PEE to hand in his RESIGNATION!

I am calling on THE VEE PEE to hand in his RESIGNATION by MONDAY and keep everything simple. We don't want no more DIRTY PAN TRINBAGO LINENS washed IN PUBLIC -- especially after all the DIAZ & FORTEAU CORRUPTION.

The very last thing that PAN TRINBAGO

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Jump Up Rising Stars

Virgin Islands - Daily News

Jump Up steel pan jam

The Rising Stars Youth Steel Orchestra gives the audience a captivating performance at the final Jump Up of 2019 Friday night in downtown Christiansted, St. Croix.

Daily News photo by BRANDY BROOKES

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PAN PEOPLE ARE REALLY POLITICALLY IMMATURE and DON'T EVEN KNOW THEIR POLITICAL POWER!!!

There are 1,079,976 eligible voters in TRINIDAD and TOBAGO.

And if you take the INDIAN HALF out of that -- you remain with about 500,000 eligible voters.

Out of that 500,000 votes -- THE STEELBAND COMMUNITY controls about 375,000 votes!!!

Do you all

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Oil Boom Begins in Guyana as Exxon Produces First Liza Crude

Bloomberg December 20th, 2019

Exxon Mobil Corp. and its partners produced the first commercial crude from Guyana, setting the small South American nation on a path to potentially vast flows of oil revenues.

Output from the first phase of the offsho

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I think that PAN TRINBAGO is waiting much too long to resolve the accusations being directed at the CURRENT VICE PRESIDENT. They owe a swift resolution to the VICE PRESIDENT and the PAN COMMUNITY!

I know that BEVERLEY is in a BIG BIND having run on a TRANSPARENCY and ANTI-CORRUPTION ticket and then to have to call on her VICE PRESIDENT to step down. She is worried about the BAD REFLECTION on her and PAN TRINBAGO -- the very reasons that she di

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If allyuh look carefully allyuh will see how the SOCA ARTISTES are working with businesses (big and small) to get their MUSIC PRODUCTIONS OUT -- but PAN eh even have a PRO after a WHOLE YEAR ...

PAN and PAN PLAYERS cannot just continue to sit back and wait for the GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS and for THE NEXT PANORAMA. They just have to come up with a MARKETING PLAN and qualified EXECUTIVES.

Time to bring in a new LIAISON OFFICER and PRO and ERO -- a

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A&M steel pan ensemble Maroon Steel performs around B-CS - Texas

By Oscar Fuentes

Texas, USA - Maroon Steel is a steel pan ensemble club that started at Texas A&M in 2013 with the purpose of getting together to play and spread the drum music associated with the Caribbean islands.

With the club being very united

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Steel music concert to play holiday favorites on the Island - Washington, USA

Mecer Island - Reporter - By Madison Miller

Steel Magic Northwest to perform holiday music Dec. 8.

It all began with a steel saucer sled.

Kansas native Gary Gibson was 12 years old when his father took him to a parade with the U.S. Navy steel band

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Clearly, PAN TRINBAGO does not have THE HEART to resolve the VEE PEE ISSUE. So I am forced to start an INTERNET INQUISITION; I am inviting THE VEE PEE to ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS and CLEAR HIS NAME!!!

I have been sitting on the VEE PEE DOSSIER for over a year, now -- and I am quite sure that PAN TRINBAGO is aware of that because I have given SEVERAL HINTS along the way ... and I know that they READ THIS FORUM.

But NO ACTION has been TAKEN to resol

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XS Steel Turns One

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Members of the XS Steel Incorporated

This country’s newest steel pan organisation, XS Steel Incorporated, celebrated its first anniversary on Wednesday November 27 with an active steel orchestra that has begun to contribute to the enter

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Today we say goodbye to our Woman of Steel the beautiful Vanya Reid

Today we say goodbye to our Woman of Steel the beautiful Vanya Reid

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[What if they give PAN TRINBAGO and the PAN YARDS the CONTRACT to sell MARIJUANA?] LICENSE TO BURN

Guardian November 22, 2019

"The TTCA will is­sue li­cences for ar­eas from growth to ther­a­peu­tic use of the “herb” - li­cences for cul­ti­va­tion, re­search and de­vel­op­ment, lab­o­ra­to­ry work, pro­cess­ing, re­tail dis­tri­b­u­tion, im­port,

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Love of instrumental music is linked to intelligence, researchers say

23 May, 2019

• A new study supports earlier suspicions of a link between intelligence and non-vocal music.
• This may have to do with a taste for novel experiences way back on the savannah.
• P

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GREGORY LINDSAY: Is the VEE PEE guilty of HIGH CRIMES and MISDEMEANORS or CHEQUE FRAUD?

Gregory Lindsay: I gave you an assignment to investigate FROM THE GROUND. And you were supposed to have a MEETING with THE PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO and then come back and report to THIS FORUM on YOUR FINDINGS.

But like yuh DROP THE BALL.

I know tha

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Well ah want to THANK RUSSELL PROVIDENCE for teaching me how to WIN FRIENDS and INLFUENCE PEOPLE ...

... because since RUSSELL PROVIDENCE came on THIS FORUM and teach me DEM TRICKS and I implemented them -- ALL KINDS AH PEOPLE sending me ALL KINDS AH INFORMATION.

Ah think ah have to HIRE AN ASSISTANT to HELP ME sort FACT from FICTION. And some of th

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GREGORY LINDSAY: For over a YEAR NOW I am hearing about some kinda SCANDAL with the VEE PEE ... and you were supposed to be INVESTIGATING that and the JSC inquiry into the AUDIT REPORT ...

... and up to now ah eh hear AH WORD FROM YOU!!!

Come on, GREGORY. Doh tell meh ah go have to start CALLING UP everybody in TRINIDAD to GET THE SCOOP MEHSELF!!!

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The committee Tuesday morning voted to approve government leases to Panyard People and Universal Concrete. Both government properties are in Sub Base, St. Thomas

The VI Source 

Vincent Richards, left, and Eric Castro testify at Tuesday’s hearing. 

St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. - Panyard People is a nonprofit organization that trains residents in the art of steel pan. Richards testified the lease is for plot No. 6 So

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Who Is Responsible for Biased and Intrusive Algorithms?

Algorithms have become part of our everyday lives. Whether one considers jobs, loans, health care, traffic or news feeds, algorithms make several decisions for us. While they often make our lives more efficient, the same algorithms frequently violate

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Remembering Panist Vanya Reid by Debra Pan Diva Eden

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Irving Burgie: Songwriter of calypso hit Day-O dies aged 95

BBC NEWS

US composer Irving Burgie, who helped to popularise Caribbean music with hit songs like Day-O, has died aged 95.

His death was confirmed by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, who called for a moment of silence for the man who wrote

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