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Rudy Wells with Massy Trinidad All Stars - ( Shades of Port of Spain )

Rudy Wells - March 08, 2022 - Anthony’s Cari-Jazz Artiste of the Day Jeremy Bain shares the story of Pan Pioneer, Rudy Wells. Here’s Jeremy: Rudy Wells was a well-known steelband arranger and classical music writer from Trinidad and Tobago. He is b

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Well, ANDY NARELL DID IT!!! HE MADE THE SYNTHESIZED PAN TONES I have been anticipating and waiting to hear for over a decade ...

ANDY-MANNETTE STEELPAN TONES

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Ah trying to figure out how BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE does stick to the two words "TRANSPARENCY" and "ACCOUNTABILITY" when she has not released one FINANCIAL REPORT in THREE YEARS ...

... and then she say that SHE DID NOT POSTPONE THE ELECTION ... she postponed THE CONVENTION.

And GIMME GIMME PAN PLAYERS -- desperate for a handout -- swallow that.

But the BIGGEST LIE is the 70% LIE ... where 70% of the STEELBANDS IN TRINIDAD AND T

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TUCO cancels Extempo, Calypso Monarch competitions

Guardian Feb 15, 2022

"The Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation (TUCO) yesterday announced the cancellation of the Calypso and Extempo competitions in this year’s ‘Taste of Carnival’.

The announcement came after an emergency meeting of the org

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National Extempo preliminaries postponed until further notice ...

Guardian Feb 14, 2022

"The National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago is advising the public of the postponement of this evening’s National Extempo Preliminaries, which was scheduled for today at Queen’s Hall, St. Ann’s."

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My calyps

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Carnival interest groups: Time for corporate sector to help [They sit on their hands ALL YEAR and when THE GOVERNMENT short change them ... then they want to beg for corporate help at the last minute]

Newsday Feb 5, 2022

TUCO president Ainsley King said he initially had a budget of $950,000, just for prize money, which was an already reduced budget based on the earlier announcement that the NCC was working with a $25-$30 million budget.

Pan Trinba

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Well yuh think yuh could go to GUYANA and say yuh have OIL? Yuh mad oh MEH LARD, OHH!!! GUYANA have more oil more than TRINIDAD ... so why CORRUPT YUH CULTURE ... YUH MAKING ME FEEL SAD ... because ..

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DR AJAMU NYOMBA makes a CRUCIAL POINT about THE WORLD OF PAN IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO ... one raised repeatedly by MERRYTONES TO THE BONE

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When BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE hear that CARNIVAL MONEY was going and share -- she jump up and say that she want FIFTEEN MILLION and she start promising STEELBANDS all KINDA BIG MONEY ...

... she start writing checks to herself and gone on ah shopping spree. But next thing you know is FIFTEEN MILLIONS split FOUR WAYS. So now she looking at less than FOUR MILLION and by the time she take ONE MILLION for herself -- it barely have any mo

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Clive Bradley Pan Legacy

Clive Bradley was an idiosyncratic, enigmatic, erratic but pragmatic musician and arranger who meandered mercurially through the corridors of life, leaving in his wake a contour not unlike that of the great Mississippi River. Bradley never played P

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NCC MONEY DROP DOWN to 15 MILLION$$$ for TASTE of CARNIVAL ...

The National Carnival Commission is receiving fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000.00) for the hosting of its events along with the three special interest groups, Pan Trinbago, TUCO, and the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival Bands Association.

All the  BI

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Bail for suspects in false COVID-19 immunization cards scheme

Guardian Feb 11, 2022

"Bail was granted to three persons who were caught during a sting operation cracking down on the conspiracy to illegally issue false COVID-19 immunization cards at the Fyzabad Health Facility, after they appeared before a Justic

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Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission - Trinidad and Tobago outage update

11:00 PM Update: Most customers from Penal to Mt. Hope have had their electricity supply restored.

T&TEC now estimates electricity should be restored to all of Trinidad by 1:00 AM

Dear valued customers, we continue to support the efforts of our Inde

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A message to: GERARD MENDEZ, DANE GULSTON, CARLAN HAREWOOD, AQUIL ARRINDELL, GREGORY LINDSAY, ROBERT HERNANDEZ, RUSSELL PROVIDENCE, CECIL HINKSON & all PAN LOVERS AROUND THE WORLD ...

... after all the decades i spend putting TIME and TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS into SUPPORTING PAN in FOREIGN and LOCAL (up to today) for THE PROGRESS OF THE INSTRUMENT ... how could YOU ALL  let me down at this CRUCIAL TIME and let a SELF-SERVING P

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The "whole" of TRINIDAD WENT DARK TODAY (T&TEC POWER OUTAGE) and the only LIGHTS on was in BRAZIL RX4 PANYARD ...

... I doh want to BOAST but ME AND AQUIL  HELP OUT dem SOLAR LIGHTING IN PAN YARDS THE MOST ...

It is time to END THE GIMME GIMME CULTURE and THE FALSE LOVE FOR PAN (especially by EXPATS). It is time to put REAL TALENTED LEADERS in place as PERMANENT

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A Taste of Controversy

Newsday 2/2/2022

"CARNIVAL this year is meant to be a scaled-down affair, but it is already apparent one aspect of the festival will not be scaled back: the bacchanal.

Not a single event in the so-called “A Taste of Carnival” has been staged, but alr

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No budget approved for Carnival yet: Taste of bacchanal [and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE promising PAN PLAYERS all kinda BIG MONEY]

Newsday FEB 3, 2022

"TWO days after National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters announced that $25-$30 million has been allocated for a scaled-down version of Carnival, the government said on Wednesday no such budget has yet be

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A little CALYPSO NOSTALGIA from THE YOUNG KILLER

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Ah hear that PAN MEN paying a fee for FALSE VACCINATION CARDS so that they could PLAY IN THE PANORAMA ... and a Nurse among 3 charged in vaxx card scam

Now BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE said that she could not hold an election because she did not want to EXPOSE PAN DELEGATES TO COVID.

But now she is HOLDING A PANORAMA and letting UNVACCINATED PAN PLAYERS (with bogus vaccination cards) enter to spread THE CO

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Taste of Carnival to cost $15 million

Carnival characters along with soca singer Ricardo Drue, dance for the cameras during the shooting of the official 2022 Panorama video for Carib at Skiffle Pan Yard on Coffee Street in San Fernando last Saturday.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Renuka Singh

Cabinet

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