The one who emerges as the leader of the Steelband Movement, will not be delegating from cyberspace, but as a TRUE LEADER, will be ahead of the pack, leading the charge! You see, a "leader" leads by example; a "manager" remotely delegates responsibil
Read more…The andy narell ambasador dream, to all you brain dead, think you know about the direction pan should go.Is it because Ellie mannette has a big influence on Andy narell? you all johnny come lately want to miss lead the population and pan players and
Read more…It is so regrettable that the Executive Committee of Pan Trinbago shows no RESPECT for the member Bands and by extension their Representatives, and the entire Pan Movement, and continues to MAMAGUY the members.
The Executive committee members have
Oscar Pile story is usually left out of the history books and one of my Comrades Cecil Hinkson from WST was inquiring about him so I decided to take the initiative to open this discussion. He said, NO ONE CAN CLAIM THAT HE HAD INVENTED THE PAN
Read more…The Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - One of the positive events held over the hectic Christmas season was the Achievement Day Celebrations for the young music students of Music Makers by their musical director Merle Albino-de Cot
Read more…The New Visionaries Pan Foundation would like to congratulate all successful Panmen and Panwomen at the just concluded Local Government elections held in Trinidad, October 2013.
We send special congratulations to Mr. Junia Regrello of Skiffle, who wa
Yesterday it was announced on none other than the Pan showed hosed by the president of Pan Trinbago, Keith Dias, that two prominent pan arrangers were pulled over by the Trinidad police, and ticketed for “playing a noisy instrument.” According to th
Read more…The following, is a list of words and phrases, that I have created, and/or defined over the past few years. Hope you find a way to use them in their right contexts. More to come...
Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, Chief Edem Duke.
Olawale Ajimotokan
Trinidad and Tobago has announced the award of university scholarship to 30 Nigerian y
Sad to say, but in a few short years, only a few families will be making money off of pan. Heard about "blood diamond". Well, in Trinidad and Tobago, we have "blood steel". Watch the panacites (blood) bank accounts grow like ticks on a dog. Of course
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Everybody says: I love the PAN! I Iove the PAN!!!
Well, if you really love the pan it is time to step up and help remove the tyrant who is currently presiding over the affairs of PAN in a most ignominious manner. The re
Read more…ON OCTOBER 27TH 2013, THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF PAN TRINBAGO WAS HELD AND NO FINANCIAL REPORTS WERE PRESENTED. STEELBANDS WERE ADVISED THEN, THAT THE REASON FOR THESE STATEMENTS NOT PRESENTED, WERE THAT TOBAGO AND THE EASTERN REGIONS DID NOT SUBM
Read more…Brian Brumant joined Renegades in 1981 at the tender age of 15; and in a very short space of time established himself as one of Renegades finest players, so much so that the legendary Dr Jit Samaroo was to identify him as his successor. True to his
Read more…As a citizen of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, a Pan person, and a Carnival Arts lover, I am appalled at the disrespect and discourtesy experienced by the Steelbands and their Players at the hands of Pan Trinbago, in the just concluded Pan Is B
Read more…So the race has started for Panorama 2014. Well this is an open invitation to all composers of 2014 pan tunes; email me an mp3 file of your tune for broadcast on the RADIO SHOW entitled "For The Love of Pan" that is produced and hosted by me on "The
Read more…Whenever the subject of unionization is brought up relative to the steel band and pan players, I'm somewhat perplexed.
What exactly would the role of this "union" be?
Is there anything that another organized body can do that PanTrinbago cannot do or
Read more…Google is a wonderful thing. I had been wondering why the Trinidad news papers were so quite after Jacob Edgar dissed BP Renegades and Trinidad pan in public and internationally in his now infamous article "Getting Panned in Trinidad". I googled his
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