On assignment, we sometimes find out about remarkable things we didn't even know existed. That's what happened to Scott Thuman and crew on a recent trip to Trinidad and Tobago. They came across an amazing natural wonder.. that you may have encountere
Read more…Newsday January 14th, 2019
Yvonne Webb
Peters credited calypso for shaping him and said had it not been for that ability to sing, he might have been “pulling seine in Mayaro or catching crab.”
This is COMICAL because INFORMED PEOPLE in the industry w
Read more…Newsday December 6th, 2018 Jada Loutoo
"I am sorry, our allocation is about $20 million and we definitely cannot pay [Pan Men]. If we have to maintain a prize structure of over $13 million, we definitely can’t ...."
THIRTEEN MILLION for THE WINNING S
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Jeremy in a loving moment with his mother Charmay Granado. PHOTO BY ANSEL JEBODH
WATCH out Len “Boogsie” Sharpe! Eleven-year-old Jeremy Granado has set his sights on being the next master arranger of steelpan music. He wan
Read more…I have seen her make that statement repeatedly as she tries to retreat from her GRAND ELECTION PROMISES.
In 2017, the allocation to PAN TRINBAGO was $23,085,000!!!
And in 2018 the allocation to PAN TRINBAGO was $20,500,000!!!
When she was running for
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This is 2019!!! Wake up TRINIDAD!!!
"Officers of the South Western Division have destroyed over $6 million in marijuana trees discovered at a camp in Moruga."
Trinidad Guardian Feb 10, 2019
Gunmen stormed the panyard where the Highlanders Steel Orchestra was practising on Monday night, stealing a phone and causing eight players to immediately quit and leave the band in disarray before ye
Read more…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
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