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
Read more…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 - 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
Read more…... 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
Read more…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
Read more…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."
My calyps
Read more…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
Read more…... 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 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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…... 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
Read more…... 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
Read more…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
Read more…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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