Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Johann Chuckaree's Indigisounds redefines the national instrument
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - At the age of 29, Johann Chuckaree, runs different businesses and juggles that with a demanding performance schedule. His advice
Peters said to the gathered pannists, “That eyesore that we have going up on the highway...that should never be. I am one to tell them, and I told the president that too, I said the day I become the Minister of Culture in this country again...if Pan
Read more…Newsday FEB 14, 2019
Gary Cardinez
"The preliminary round for large bands (North) for Panorama was nothing short of sensational. It resulted in Port of Spain being gridlocked on Tuesday evening as thousands of pan lovers traversed the streets."
Read more…by Keith Subero
....The tragedy is that pan, the soul of Carnival, continues to disappear from our mas. It is being reduced to bastard-sister status in Carnival. After the Panorama competition, only a few bands appear on the streets on Jouvert mornin
Read more…Judges gave San City the nod with an unpopular song, why? Voice and Rudder’s Madness.
It has been five years of drought for San City. Since moving up to the medium category, they have only now gotten the nod from the judges. Based on the band’s an
Read more…Newsday Feb 22, 2019
Exodus steelband has filed an injunction against Pan Trinbago.
The band’s attorney, Hove and Associates, told Newsday the injunction was filed at about 12.30 pm today.
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WHAT IS THIS?: A vendor points to a space where a sink is supposed to be inside a booth at the Queen’s Park Savannah yesterday. Vendors are facing a myriad of problems with the booths provided to them by the NCC. PHOTO BY RYAN HAMILTON-DAVIS
WHILE t
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By: Troy Van-Rossum, P.C. 24814
The Members’ of the Guyana Police Force Steel Orchestra ¬Band broke down in tears of joy after being crowned as the champions of the senior category of Republic Banks, Annual Mashramani Pan-o-rama Steel Band Competi
Attorney Antonya Pierre (Hove & Associates) recently announced that her law firm had been retained to fight the matter on behalf of EXODUS as BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and PAN TRINBAGO try to force them to play RAG STORM in the PANORAMA FINALS in
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Patrons attending the “Savannah party” on Sunday voiced generally negative reviews, judging from the responses carried in yesterday’s Express.
From the absence of seats for patrons, to apparently excessive exposure to the afternoon sunshine, to the
Read more…That means we have an automatic 1.8 million$ in the PAN TRINBAGO COFFERS.
So I am curious to see how the OTHER NUMBERS balance out -- since GYPSY said that he expanded the overall capacity of the NORTH PARK to 32,000.
I am expecting this NEW PAN TRIN
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UNSPONSORED steelbands received over $2 million from the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts last week. The bands collected their cheques at the ministry’s St Ann’s office.
In prior news reports, steelbands were s
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In our classrooms we have children who will become proud professionals but there are also the dancers, athletes, tailors, artists, mechanics, pannists, and costume designers. But our education system has lost touch with a large secti
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PAN POINTERS: A panman from Pemberi points his stick as he performed yesterday at the Panorama semis at the Queen's Park Savannah. PHOTO BY JEFF K. MAYERS
....Three minutes into the song Stewart gave praise to the Almighty looking sk
Read more…Now this lady promise TRANSPARENCY and this was her first opportunity to fulfill that promise by releasing the final numbers from THE SEMIS.
Ah wonder how much of that money is going to ATTORNEYS FEES following this EXODUS FUTILITY?
And again in the
Read more…Marcus Ash: I am putting you in charge of producing that report and presenting it on THIS FORUM.
It seems that you are the de facto PRO and the 20,000 readers on WHEN STEEL TALKS are very curious to know how the NORTH PARK mixed in with this NEW PAN
Read more…Large Semi-finalists:
1. Renegades 273
2. Invaders 265
3. All Stars 264
4. Phase II 261
5. Despers 260
6. Supernovas 260
7. Exodus 259
8. Silver Stars 258
9. Tropical 255
10.Birdsong 254
11.Skiffle 253
12.Starlift 252
13.Fonclaire 251
14.Buccooneers
As the news went viral and the ripple of shock rose to a crescendo of outrage, embarrassment and recrimination, Michael Cooper sent out a WhatsApp message: “Well… well… well. I guess we need to see things in black and white to believe.”
With the note
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