Trinidad Guardian
Eighty–year-old Daisy James-McClean, leader of the Harlem Syncopators Steel Orchestra, sacrificed and saved over the years using her pension money to buy the land where the band is on at Quarry Street, Port-of-Spain.
The sub
Read more…I have a PARDNAH in SAN JUAN who grow up in the same era in SAN JUAN with me and DIAZ!!! All ah we from SAN JUAN and the man just send me an email to CLARIFY SOME THINGS.
What most people on THIS FORUM don't know is that I DON'T MAKE THE NEWS -- I ju
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Even as steelbands continue to struggle for sponsorship for this year’s Panorama, Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has pledged to support San Fernando-based Skiffle Steel Orchestra for a second year.
Read more…Newsday February 7th, 2019
Carol Matroo
There are no special favours for social media posters who post photos, letters or any kind of defamatory matter as they will face the same disciplinary action as journalists and media houses.
Defamation is word
Read more…Newsday Feb 5, 2019 Gary Cardinez
"FORMER Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz is in Illinois, USA, representing the organisation at Dr Clifford Alexis’ funeral which takes place today.
Diaz made the trip along with Pan Trinbago’s executive members Deni
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -Three years after the murder of Japanese pan player Asami Nagakiya, the T&T Police Service’s Cold Case Unit has found new information which can help solve the case.
Head of the Unit ACP Anthony Ja
Read more…The Big Stage, North Park...all at #CarnivalCity Trinidad carnival 2019
Sandra Awaii had all the SPONSORSHIP CONNECTIONS in the world in Trinidad. She spent decades building these contacts and helping STEELBANDS. When she became PRO of PAN TRINBAGO she was working with 63 COMPANIES across TRINIDAD and 21 of these compani
Team Panifold shows their work. (Photo by Stephen Babcock)
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
Read more…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
PANORAMA 2019 ODDS
RENEGADES 2-1
ALL STARS 3-1
SKIFFLE, 4-1
EXODUS 10-1
SILVER STARS 12-1
FONCLAIRE 75-1
But THE MAN leave out BOOGSIE/PHASE II and DESPERADOESII!!!
I am booking PHASE II at 25-1 and DESPERAD
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
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
Trinidad Express -
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
Read more…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
Read more…“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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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
