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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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Gunmen storm Highlanders panyard, rob players Band gets time to regroup for prelims [Dey wasn't going to do that under KEITH DIAZ and FORTEAU!!!]

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

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Culture Bus Mobile Party and Panyard Sensations

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Thee best-laid plans of MICE and BEVERLEY often go awry ...

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

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“This is a humanitarian crisis for PAN PLAYERS— a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul and a crisis of the culture"

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

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Gypsy: No funds yet from Govt!!!

"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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US students study pan in Lopinot

Trinidad Newsday

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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Merchant's ex-wife calls for audit into Copyright Organisation

Loop Magazine

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.

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FUAD ABU BAKR STANDS ALONE -- EVERYBODY ELSE happily SELL OUT the PAN PLAYERS to BEVERLEY!!!

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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STEELBAND LEADERSHIP MUST RE-INVENT ITSELF by Rae Samuel

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

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MARCUS ASH: For the first time in DECADES good things have a chance of HAPPENING in PAN TRINBAGO -- driven by WHEN STEEL TALKS. So you better come on and do your "ACTING PRO" ACT!!!

You have a CENTRAL ROLE TO PLAY, Marcus -- so DO IT!!!

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Pain of playing pan

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

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