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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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BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE could PAY THE PAN PLAYERS if she chooses to be CREATIVE and EQUITABLE

BEVERLEY could PAY THE PAN MEN if she chooses to be CREATIVE and EQUITABLE 

There are about 7000 players (all my numbers are BALL PARK NUMBERS -- I am not claiming to provide EXACT NUMBERS) who practice and perform the PANORAMA MUSIC across TRINIDAD

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Beverley: Katzenjammers need financial support

Trinidad Newsday

Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra from Black Rock, Tobago. 

With one month to go before Carnival, Pan Trinbago President Beverly Ramsey-Moore says her band, Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra, like many of its counterparts, needs support for

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Machel comes to Blue Diamonds’ rescue

Trinidad Guardian

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Not only the National instrument is taken for granted...

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

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Calypso saved Gypsy from catching crab, picking up bottles

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

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PanTrinbago: Be prepared to give up something -- PanTrinbago boss pleads to panmen!!!

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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Pan passion - Jeremy Granado aims to be ace arranger

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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

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Why is Beverley Ramsey-Moore LYING to the PUBLIC and saying that the Panorama Allocation to PAN TRINBAGO was cut from 30 million to 20 million

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 COULDA pay all the PAN PLAYERS!!!

Darlisa Ghouralal  Created : 16 January 2019

NEWSDAY

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."

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