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Taste of Carnival 2022 events will operate at a maximum of 50% capacity, with the Grand Stand being outfitted to comfortably host 1200 patrons and the North Park, 1100 patrons.

... and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE says that she cannot convene 300 delegates IN THE SAVANNAH.

TTPS and the NCC toured the facilities and held talks on how they would continue to work together in looking after the health and safety of all Carnival City pa

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TASTE of PANORAMA CORRUPTION and NEPOTISM by GERARD MENDEZ

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Put the brakes on total dependency [BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE ... especially after all your promises of FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE FOR PAN]

Trinidad Express Feb 17, 2022

"I am extremely disappointed by the approach taken by some stakeholders with regard to national Carnival celebrations this year.

There is a pandemic that has affected us all. Carnival celebrations were suspended for the

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"As usual, they are reliant on state funding and are entering into the season empty-handed, unable to show any revenue they have generated on their own." PAN PEOPLE HAVE NO SHAME ...

All the MAJOR NEWSPAPERS are exposing the CORRUPTION and INCOMPETENCE and DEPENDENCY ... and the PAN COMMUNITY STAYS SILENT.

Yet every so often you read these LOFTY ARTICLES about the POTENTIAL OF THE MUSIC and the FOREIGN EXCHANGE that it could brin

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TUCO boss hits Gypsy’s calypso events assurances [Tobagonians coming to TRINIDAD and embarassing HARD CORE TRINIS FOR MORE MONEY -- GIMME GIMME]

Newsday Feb 15, 2002

"At the crux of the matter is TUCO being given $1.5 million out of the NCC's $15 million Taste of Carnival budget, when TUCO originally asked for $2.5 million.

Its president Ainsley King said $1.5 million is not enough to stage a

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How is Carnival money spent?

Guardian Feb, 2022

"Predictably, the grumbling has started from the three Carnival interest groups about the money allocated for Taste of Carnival, the scaled-down version of the annual festival that gets going towards the end of this week.

Almost in

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SDOMA: Taste of Carnival should be later this year [Plenty objections to this carnival]

Guardian Feb 3, 2022

"The Downtown Owners and Merchants Association has said the Taste of Carnival event should have been held later in the year, to allow for better planning and consultation with stakeholders.

DOMA president, Gregory Aboud told Guar

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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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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

Ajamu Nyomba

Underlying the Sanchoce discussion are two issues no one has addressed:

1. T'dad is the mecca of the Caribbean. There may be as many people of Grenadian, Vincentions, Doinicians, Guyanese, Haitian, etc descent as there are of T'dadian des

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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

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Taste of Carnival 2022 events will operate at a maximum of 50% capacity, with the Grand Stand being outfitted to comfortably host 1200 patrons and the North Park, 1100 patrons.

TASTE of PANORAMA CORRUPTION and NEPOTISM by GERARD MENDEZ

Put the brakes on total dependency [BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE ... especially after all your promises of FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE FOR PAN]

"As usual, they are reliant on state funding and are entering into the season empty-handed, unable to show any revenue they have generated on their own." PAN PEOPLE HAVE NO SHAME ...

TUCO boss hits Gypsy’s calypso events assurances [Tobagonians coming to TRINIDAD and embarassing HARD CORE TRINIS FOR MORE MONEY -- GIMME GIMME]

How is Carnival money spent?

SDOMA: Taste of Carnival should be later this year [Plenty objections to this carnival]

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

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

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 ...

TUCO cancels Extempo, Calypso Monarch competitions

National Extempo preliminaries postponed until further notice ...

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]

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 ..

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

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 ...

Clive Bradley Pan Legacy

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

Bail for suspects in false COVID-19 immunization cards scheme

Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission - Trinidad and Tobago outage update

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