Game-changer to Digital Dustbin: Why iTunes Is Shutting Down

If video killed the radio star, as the old song goes, then iTunes killed the record industry. Now, 18 years after Apple launched the music download store, the company announced that iTunes is shutting down.

During its Worldwide Developers Conference

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ALL OF A SUDDEN -- PAN TRINBAGO GET TRANSPARENT!!! I spent the last SIX MONTHS on THIS FORUM begging for TRANSPARENCY ... and suddenly so BEVERLEY sending her LACKEYS to be TRANSPARENT ....

You have to be REAL BACKWARD to be so psychologically TRANSPARENT!!!

But that eh NO SURPRISE TO ME!!!

All the EXECUTIVE SUPPORT STAFF suddenly CROWDING all the PAN SITES trying to explain THIS and EXPLAIN THAT.

THANK GOD FOR men like RUSSELL PROVIDEN

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T&T humiliated, dumped out Gold Cup

Trinidad Guardian June 22, 2019

Trinidad and To­ba­go skip­per Khaleem Hy­land and his team­mates suf­fered a hu­mil­i­at­ing 6-0 de­feat to the Unit­ed States in their sec­ond Group D CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup match at the En­er­gy Field in Cleve­land, Oh

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Trinidad & Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble Wows Audiences in Toronto

Toronto, Canada - The Trinidad & Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble (TTCSE) took Toronto by storm during their recently-concluded performances a couple of weeks ago.

....This small ethnic group, captained by Susie Young, received rave reviews from all t

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CECIL HINKSON: Ah want you to EXPLAIN TO ME what is going on in THE PAN TING (With BEVERLEY & PAN TRINBAGO) -- because I am lost ...

... at least when KEITH DIAZ and RICHARD FORTEAU was in office I could stay BUSY counting how much MONEY dey was TIEFING.

Now with BEVERLEY -- ah have to go the AFRICAN AMERICAN GHETTO: Ain't nothing HAPPENING, DUDE!!!

Come on CECIL!!! You were the N

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Timeless Sparrow turns 84

Jul 10, 2019

Slinger Francisco, known around the world as Mighty Sparrow, celebrated his 84th birthday yesterday.

His son, photographer Sancho Francisco, said: “Today he is very happy. He is having a good day. I spoke to him and he is enjoying some f

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But how could GREGORY LINDSAY be SO SILENT while the PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE sleeps until PANORAMA?

When KEITH DIAZ was in power, GREGORY LINDSAY  make all kinda noise. Now they put ah WOMAN AS BOSS and she throw way she manifesto once she win office and all she care about is PANORAMA IN TOBAGO.

Not ah ting eh happening for PAN and GREGORY LINDSAY

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DRUM FACTORY PRODUCTION EXCEEDS DEMAND

Informed sources are reporting that pan tuners and steelband leaders across the mecca have been showering praises on Pan Trinbago's new management of the drum factory. High quality drums are now available for the first time on demand, and off the she

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ComPANions ask - about changes for Panorama 2020

What do you think?

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I understand BEVERLEY RAMSEY MOORE'S perspective on the TOBAGO PANORAMA TING -- but it is PERSONAL and not in THE BEST INTEREST OF PAN!!!

First of all, it is fraught with BIAS!!!

You CANNOT have a PANORAMA FINALS IN TOBAGO with a SON OF THE SOIL arranging at the HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER and NOT GIVE HIM THE WIN!!! So before the PANORAMA even start -- DUVONE DONE WIN ALREADY!!!

Where is the

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The Edmonds Center for the Arts is offering “Intergenerational Steel Drum Camp with The Seattle Steel Pan Project and Silver Kite Community Arts”

Edmonds News

Intergenerational steel drum camp.
(Photo courtesy Edmonds Center for the Arts)

Edmonds Kind of Play: The value of intergenerational activities

...Next week, the Edmonds Center for the Arts is offering “Intergenerational Steel Drum Cam

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Notting Hill Carnival - dance to the sound of steel bands and calypso music

The London Post

Join London’s biggest street party as the Notting Hill Carnival fills the streets of west London with Caribbean colours, music and flavours.

Watch elaborate floats and colourful costumed performers wind their way through the streets

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AQUIL ARRINDELL and THE LIVE EXPERIENCE (PAN) rock MAYARO RESOURCE CENTER

Hundreds of MUSIC LOVERS flooded the MAYARO RESOURCE CENTER last night to enjoy an EVENING OF MUSIC (With Pan) presented by some of the most talented young musicians in the entire land.

Satisfied fans walked away from the show uttering one word: AMA

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What Carnival meant and means?

By Hilroy A. Willett

Having been either born or raised during the era at the start of Antigua’s Carnival over some 60 years ago and having been a participant in this event during that time, it is easy to imagine what carnival meant then. Apart from

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Jenais Carter: For the love of music

Newsday - Carol Quash

Photo by Ayanna Kinsale

Jenais Carter has never known a life without music. But she did not come to appreciate the benefits of the artform until she became an adult.

Born to parents who are both teachers and heavily involved i

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RUSSELL PROVIDENCE, JOHN ARNOLD, TREVOR COOPER, AYESHA MOHAMMED, AINSWORTH MOHAMMED -- All the HIGHLY EDUCATED PAN LOVERS TELLING BEVERLEY TO USE YUH HEAD, BEVERLEY!!!

So Long I FIGHTING KEITH DIAZ!!!

And when we GET RID OF HIM -- DEY PUT BEVERLEY and they say GIVE SHE AH CHANCE.

But now with the TOBAGO PANORAMA HUSTLE -- all kinda people JUMPING OFF THE BEVERLEY BOAT and urging THE WOMAN TO USE SHE HEAD!!!

But I s

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Well BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE sending all her HIGH PROFILE AMBASSADORS on THIS FORUM to convince members to BUY INTO the PANORAMA CHANGE ...

Now, if you read THE TOPIC on THE CHANGE very carefully, you will see that there were VERY FEW negative comments about the change from members of THIS FORUM. But the PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE is so insecure and paranoid that they gathered their forces a

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Sweet music at Youth Steel Explosion

Joan Rampersad - Newsday

BPTT Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra

THREE of the top junior steelbands in TT were selected to entertain at the Youth Steel Explosion held at the Emancipation village in the Queen’s Park Savannah on Tuesday. BPTT Renegades

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South Africa Hosts World's Largest Marimba and Steelpan Festival

By Marize de Klerk

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AQUIL ARRINDELL: A TRUE CULTURE LOVER, PAN SOLDIER and RISING MUSIC STAR -- adds HIS TALENT to "THE LIVE EXPERIENCE!!!"

Aquil Arrindell, no stranger to the world of the steelpan, is the captain and one of the arrangers at the San City Steel Symphony. He is the holder of a degree in music and works as a supervisor with the Ministry of Education Music Program Unit. He i

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