A team developing a portable steel pan to play in a steel drum orchestra won second place

2nd Place: Panifold

A team developing a portable steel pan to play in a steel drum orchestra won second place, and funding to the tune of $1,000. Panifold team members didn’t have a keyboard

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More PROMISES from BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE: "Time to for pan to create wealth!!!"

Trinidad Guardian 1/26/2019 Charles Kong Soo

NAH PROMISE ME -- JUST GIH ME AM RIGHT AWAY (Shortshirt)!!!

She said when look­ing at the pan move­ment, there was a new dy­nam­ic with dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories of youth par­tic­i­pat­ing. The or­gan­i­sa­

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BEDE LOPEZ is GIVING ODDS on the 2019 PANORAMA WINNER

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Exodus welcomes to the musical direction team Mr Leon Foster Thomas

LEON FOSTER THOMAS

Recording Artist | Pannist | Percussionist | Composer | Arranger | Educator
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Leon Foster Thomas is a gifted international jazz musician and steel pan virtuoso who blends
the music of his Caribbean roots with the harmonic and impr

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Yuh have to be RICH to go to Panorama these days: LOOK AT DEM PRICES!!!

National Panorama Medium & Large Finals – Saturday March 02, 2019 

Carnival City, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain 

Time: 6:00 pm 
Grand Stand General: $400 
Grand Stand Reserved: $700 
Grand Stand Special Reserved: $850 
North Park: $300. (coole

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Pan in a vice -- Steelbands suffering due to cutbacks...

Trinidad Express  -Sunity Maharaj

WITH a mere 15 per cent of the 147 bands registered for Panorama 2019 having the financial support of a title sponsor, guava season econo­mic conditions are hitting the steelband movement hard and forcing a collecti

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Pan Elders Struggles - Unsponsored 5-time medium band champs in crunch

Trinidad Newsday

FIVE-time medium band champion Pan Elders’ quest to successfully defend its title for 2019 is in jeopardy.

Bandleader Hollister Smith told Sunday Newsday that as of yesterday he did not even have 40 players in his band, “because eve

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With all the OLE TALK on THIS FORUM: PAN/PANORAMA PROGRESS IS DEAD. I think MAYOR REGRELLO said it BEST

“We are going around in circles, spending large sums. Panorama started in 1963 and in 2019, we still have some of the same problems. We have not really evolved as we should have."

As meh PARDNAH Gregory Lindsay likes to say: TALK DONE!!!

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Panmen demand $$ -- Tense Pan Trinbago meeting

CALM BEFORE THE STORM: Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore and external relations officer Dale Gulston are all smiles before the start of what turned out to be a very heated meeting yesterday at the CWU Hall in Port of Spain. PHOTO BY SUREAS

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The steelband movement mourns the loss of Dr. Clifford Alexis

The steelband movement has lost yet another icon with the passing of Dr. Clifford Alexis.

Mrs. Beverley Ramsey-Moore, President of Pan Trinbago, has expressed her deepest condolences to his immediate family and that of the steelpan fraternity. Mrs. R

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Pan Elders prepare to defend title!!! [But I like the part about the BAND HOPPING!!!]

Newsday Feb 4, 2019

Yvonne Webb

There were anxious moments earlier in the year when a combination of factors – lack of financial assistance, a shortage of players owing to reluctance to perform without a stipend and the fact that most were performin

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Sando mayor puts Gypsy’s record straight [Gypsy spreading FAKING FAKE NEWS!!!]

Newsday January 22nd, 2019

Richardson Dhalai

In an interview at his Harris Promenade office today, Regrello referred to a radio interview in which Peters reportedly said the SFCC had squandered its allocation of $400,000.

“He is saying we were given

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Time for BEVERLEY and COMPANY to STOP BLAMING KEITH DIAZ and take RESPONSIBILITY for their own lack of LEADERSHIP!!!

Way back in 2012, Beverley Ramsey-Moore quit PAN TRINBAGO because she saw Keith Diaz tiefing all the money. And I, personally, kept a running tab on THIS FORUM (for years) of the debt that PAN TRINBAGO was accruing -- guessing at the figures but keep

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I am PROPOSING a NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PAN -- down in THE MECCA!!!

So many ideas, so many articles, so many opinions.

The MINISTER OF EDUCATION gave a good signal promising to add almost 600 STEELBANDS to the PAN IN SCHOOLS PROGRAM in the NEXT TWO YEARS.

So I would like to see THIS CONFERENCE called and people like

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And I thought that PAN TRINBAGO was BROKE. Yet BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE managed to FIND MONEY to PAY for KEITH DIAZ to fly to AMERICA for a FUNERAL ... while PAN PLAYERS remain UNPAID!!!

Well, my TUNAPUNA SOURCE (St. John Road) was the the first one to VERIFY for me that BEVERLEY paid for the PLANE TICKET for KEITH DIAZ to fly to AMERICA and attend a funeral -- while PAN PLAYERS are playing FOR FREE because PAN TRINBAGO is supposed t

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Get your Executive Medical done this Saturday for free - A message from Pan Trinbago

A message from Pan Trinbago

"Ready For 'D' Road, Keeping Our Culture Alive

All Regional Executives; Staff; Steelband Managers; Steelband Tuners; Arrangers & Leaders! 

Get your Executive Medical done this Saturday for free from 7:15am.

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Windrush Foundation To Honour Lord Woodbine On 90th Birthday

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I have come to the conclusion that PAN PROGRESS will NEVER HAPPEN in Trinidad. The next 56 years will be the same as the last 56 years!!!

So as merrytonestonestothebone likes to say: What the hell is COCKROACH doing in FOWL BUSINESS!!!

But PAN PROGRESS in AMERICA is moving faster than a SPEEDING BULLET.

So ah better HOP A RIDE on the FAST TRAIN!!!

BACKWARDNESS is HOPELESSNESS!!!

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What does GYPSY bring to the TABLE? And what does FAY ANN bring to the TABLE?

Gypsy said that he went to CARNIVALS all over the WORLD -- so that makes him SKILLED in PRODUCING a CARNIVAL PRODUCT.

And FAY ANN sing in some SOCA MONARCHS -- so that makes her SKILLED in PRODUCING a SOCA MONARCH PRODUCT.

But I say: If you have the

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RACISM by BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE in the PAN WORLD?

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