Between 2013 and 2018, KEITH DIAZ collected (in his pocket) between THREE MILLION AND SIX MILLION DOLLARS (ah have the records to prove it)!!!
So when THE BEV see that, she say: I have to get PIECE OF THAT PIE!!!
But when she got there (PRESIDENT OF
Read more…The Minister of Culture and the PRESIDENT of Pan Trinbago and the Chairman of the NCC and THE STAFF of Pan Trinbago -- all conspiring to CHEAT the PAN PLAYERS out of their REMITTANCES while they live HIGH ON THE HOG on TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
But all the P
Read more…"The National Carnival Commission (NCC) has to wait until it receives funds from the Government before it can determine how much it could contribute to various Carnival events.
However, NCC chairman, Winston “Gypsy” Peters hopes to receive those fund
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TWELVE students from the University of Minnesota, USA are currently in TT learning about pan and Caribbean history.
Hosted by Selwyn "Fruits" Williams, public relations officer of FCB Supernovas at the panyard in Lopinot, the univer
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The ex-wife of the late calypsonian Merchant is calling for an audit of the Copyright Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago (COTT).
Ruthlyn Dixon Boxhill is making the call after receiving $400 in royalty payments for Merchant’s estate.
Read more…The only man left in the WHOLE PAN MOVEMENT with any INTEGRITY!!!
Fuad Abu Bakr called for PAN PLAYERS to UNITE!!! Let Gypsy and the rest know NO PANORAMA unless what we need to continue to host the biggest show on earth is available. He went on to e
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I have just finished reading an article from the former public affairs manager of the sponsor of the now 'homeless' Desperadoes Steel Orchestra. The piece sounds like nostalgia for the good ole days a la Mary Hopkins song Those were the days my frien
You have a CENTRAL ROLE TO PLAY, Marcus -- so DO IT!!!
Pannists suffer poor posture, muscle strains
PAN players, both young and not so young, agree that playing the national instrument is out of love, but what does that love cost, physically?
Sunday Newsday met with physical therapist Dr Nicole De Freit
Read more…Since she take over: The organization get EVICTED; and then ALL PAN PLAYERS lose their REMITTANCES for 2018 and 2019 and 2020; and, today, 23 STEELBANDS lost their SPONSORSHIP/ASSISTANCE from PETROTRIN; BANDITS tiefing TENOR PANS; SWINE FLU ALERT in
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‘Dimes’ invents fusion vibe pan
Pan tuner Denzil "Dimes" Fernandez demonstrates his latest invention, the fusion vibe pan, in Laventilleon Friday.
In the field of pan tuning, Denzil “Dimes” Fernandez is a living legend.
Unassuming
Read more…Chairman of the National Carnival Commission (NCC) Winston “Gypsy” Peters told regional Carnival bodies if they cannot account for taxpayers’ money spent on previous Carnival events, they will not be provided with any fundi
Read more…I would advise BEVERLEY to have a PRESS CONFERENCE (ah been begging for that press conference for 13 weeks now) and present the situation to the PRESS and the PUBLIC and make an appeal to all citizens and corporations to STEP UP and clear the remitta
Read more…That one time my band was on a TV show Despers Us Steel! Go check out High Maintenance on HBO season 3 episode 2 and check out our lil cameo! #DespersUSA --- Aliandre C. Maraj
Newsday Feb 8,2019 Lisa Allen-Agostini
Each generation reflects where we are in society, he [David Rudder] said. Recalling that he had come up as a calypsonian in the tradition of Zandolie and Kitchener, the “Lyrics Man” said working with 2016-18 Soc
Read more…Starting with Beverley calling the PAN PLAYERS hustlers. And then the 60 million taxpayer dollars that disappear. And how GYPSY and BEVERLEY say no more PAY for the PAN PLAYERS and now Petrotrin come and cut out about 23 steelbands from the dependenc
Read more…Marcus Ash: This morning Junia Regrello complaining (After 56 years plus Three Months of Beverley -- Pan men still face same issues). Yesterday it was Keron Valentine dropping out of the PANORAMA. The day before that it was PAN ELDERS quest to succes
In keeping with the watchwords "Get Up and Do It Yourself" we at birdsong have taken the initiative to fill the gap left by PanTrinbago's inability to pay players fees in a timely manner. We've raised our own funding and will be covering the player
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - To the uninformed, Duvone Stewart can seem boastful.
Get to know him, though, and you’ll realise his apparent cockiness is really an affirmation of the greatness, he believes, he was destined t
Read more…Cut the prize money and pay the players.
Let me make my position clear, I am not against Pan Trinbago because I am Pan Trinbago. I am not against the President of Pan Trinbago because she is now my president. I am not against my executive because t
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