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Blind pannist, ex-national footballer among Point honourees

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - While Point Fortin may be the smallest Borough in Trinidad, hometown heroes like visually impaired panist Michael Toussaint and former national footballer Reynold Carrington have the world taking n

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Errol Zephyrine is alive & well

It's gives When Steel Talks great pleasure to announce that the reports of the passing of Errol Zephyrine were false

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Ah think ah have to give up this FUTILE PAN TING ...

Imagine I am 71 years-old and NEVER had a headache in my whole life, nor a stitch or broken bone or a day in the hospital.

But after I read that report from MR. BOWEI -- meh HEART start PALPITATING and ah START SWEATING and meh HAND START SHAKING and

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[bugs yuh right, boy; even under the highly educated DOCTOR DOLLY dey cyar keep balanced books] NCC owes $78m to service providers

Trinidad Guardian April 10, 2019

"The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) has racked up a debt of $78 mil­lion in the last two years.

The rev­e­la­tion was made be­fore a Pub­lic Ac­counts Com­mit­tee meet­ing chaired by Dr Bhoe Tewarie, as they

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TT engineer to pay US$4m to Prince’s estate [This is the engineer who should be working on dem DIGITAL PAN TONES ah was talking about]

Newsday April 10th, 2019

A Grammy-winning mixing and recording engineer has been ordered to pay the late musician Prince’s estate US$4 million for releasing an unauthorised EP of Prince songs.

TT-born Ian Boxill was also ordered, said an April 9 BBC

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Iowa Steel Bands drumming into town

On Thursday night, the Iowa Steel Bands will perform a mixture of traditional and pop music on bowl-shaped, or steel, drums.

Thursday at 7:30 p.m., the Iowa Steel Bands will perform a selection of percussive steel drum pieces in Voxman.

“We will ha

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BIG PLANS to ELEVATE PAN in TOBAGO: Proposal discussed to move the NATIONAL MEDIUM BAND Panorama Semi-Finals to Tobago

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Big BACCHANAL with the TOBAGO JAZZ FESTIVAL: Dey pay Randy Glasgow Promotions $500,000 to promote TOBAGO JAZZ but we still eh know how much Beverley pay all dem advertising people to PROMOTE PANORAMA

THE Tobago Festivals Commission bypass a tendering process and pay Randy Glasgow Promotions $550,000 to market Tobago Jazz Experience 2019. And they give him an advance payment of $110,000.

That turn into a BIG BACCHANAL!!!

But the first thing that B

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Anglican Dean quotes MR KILLA ‘Pick up something and run’, like God's word

Newsday March 7th, 2017

SOCA champion Hollis "Mr Killa’s" Mapp's advice to “Pick up something and run with it” was adopted in an uplifting message by the Very Reverend Shelly-Ann Tenia in her Ash Wednesday sermon yesterday at the Holy Trinity Cathedr

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IT WAS LIT [Says Nailah about the 2019 CARNIVAL SEASON]

“It was lit.” That was how singer Nailah Blackman summed up her 2019 Carnival season.

Speaking with Newsday Tobago on Thursday after her performance at the Calypso Rose- Forever Young concert at the Shaw Park Cultural Complex, Blackman said: “It was

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Lagniappe - The Event - Steelband Champs, Soca Stars and more

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  The Carnival may be officially over but come Saturday March 9, Pan Trinbago will relive the memories through its production “Lagniappe… A Night With The Champs,” at the home of Carnival, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain

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In less than SIX MONTHS, PAN TRINBAGO has had over 150 meetings -- but ZERO ANNOUNCEMENTS to the PAN PUBLIC

I am still waiting to see the NUMBERS from the PANORAMA (ah had to give up on the FORENSIC AUDIT REPORT dey eh releasing that) and ah still waiting for a NEW PRO and the REPLACEMENT of the ERO who eh accomplishing nothing.

The LIAISON OFFICER to STEE

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An update on Pan in Poland - good times

Some people may remember five years ago I posted that Pan had come to Poland. It's still here and chuggin' over nicely, but we hit a brick wall when trying to have anyone compete in established music competitions (youth or otherwise). Enter this guy,

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FAMALAY WINS ROAD MARCH

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(M)iyamoto Is Black Enough Sizzles With Percussive Energy

San Francisco - Classical Voice

(M)iyamoto Is Black Enough

At the first break for applause after a face-melting drum solo, poet and spoken-word artist Roger Bonair-Agard commanded, “This ain’t golf, make some noise for Sean Dixon, the filthiest drumm

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After 5000 PAN PLAYERS play for FREE -- ah think we deserve some TRANSPARENCY!!!

Beverley promise TRANSPARENCY 1000 times on the CAMPAIGN TRAIL. But now the PANORAMA has been hailed a SUCCESS (the greatest ever, she said) with RECORD ATTENDANCE and the PAN PUBLIC is still waiting to see some NUMBERS.

Like what was the attendance

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Kendall Williams named as new arranger for Pan Elders

Kendall Williams will be the 2020 Panorama arranger for the defending Medium Band champions Pan Elders Steel Orchestra.

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Deafening SILENCE from BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and PAN TRINBAGO after all the PROMISES of UTOPIA and SONG

PANORAMA DONE and PAN TRINBAGO GONE SILENT.

No shows on the horizon!!! No report on the millions that pass through the hands of the executive from the PANORAMA POT!!! No word to the PAN PLAYERS on their share of the PROFITS.

Go around the PAN CHAT SI

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Sad news of the passing of a son of the soil and Icon of our national instrument - Ossie George

by Suzette Jackie

Sad news of the passing of a son of the soil and Icon of our national instrument Ossie George, who departed this life this morning at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was a very close friend of Len '' Boogsie'' Sharpe and the father of

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Gov’t takes over steelband body

The Keith Mitchell-led New National Party (NNP) government has apparently taken over the running of the Grenada Steelband Association (GSA) following months of bickering between two warring factions.

THE NEW TODAY has obtained correspondence in which

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