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NINE MONTHS WITHOUT A PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER ... was SANDRA AWAII too "WHITE" for PAN TRINBAGO?
Please note that I put the word "WHITE" in quotes. Because if you just come from TOBAGO and see SANDRA, you might think that she is WHITE. But if you have lived in FOREIGN for a very long time -- WHITE is a DIFFERENT KINDA TING.
Anyway, according to
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Culture Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly has denied ever saying or suggesting the pan was not worthy of the Carifesta Super Concert stage
Michael Mondezie - Express
She was responding to an allegation by Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore that she was told by Gadsby-Dolly that the national instrument, the pan, is “not good enough” to be featured at the Carifesta XIV Super Con
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Meet Zakiya Uzoma-Wadada - Executive Director of the Emancipation Support Committee
Trinidad Guardian
She always wanted a career in teaching and at the age of 18 after leaving high school, was appointed a teacher at Belmont Girls’ RC School followed by St Rose’s Girls’ Intermediate School. At the age of 19 she was marri
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Great Expectations Delivered - NY Pan Stars Launch Lights Up the Hood with Electrifying Steelband Performances
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Brooklyn, New York, USA - Back in the day one always had a favorite TV show that aired once a year. This was long before the era of Netflix and Hulu and DVDs. And no matter how many times you saw it - you knew it was going to be great every time. |
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STEEL BANDS - THINGS & STUFF
LONDON ON THE INSIDE
The sound of steel pans is one of the unmistakable sounds of Carnival. Introduced to the British public in the early 1950s – they were shown on the BBC in 1950 and in 1951 The Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra (TASPO) play
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I want to RECOGNIZE and PRAISE MARCUS ASH for CARRYING THE FULL LOAD at PAN TRINBAGO as BEVERLEY and the rest of the EXECUTIVE just sit around WAITING FOR PANORAMA ...
People COMPLAINING left and right about the STAGNATION that has hit PAN TRINBAGO since BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE took over the organization.
IS TRUE, EH!!! I eh making this up. Call up GREGORY LINDSAY and ask him in CONFIDENCE and he will tell you the t
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The Traceys: An intergenerational story of African music
By Derek Davey
Geoffrey and Andrew having a jam. Photo: Jonathon Rees
In 1969 he started the Andrew Tracey Steel Pan Band, which performed around Grahamstown and South Africa and at festivals such as the National Arts Festival until 2007. During the
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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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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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