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Prime minister, ministers, mayors and councillors, take notice and take action. Pan camps need help. Part 2

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

Lastly, last year’s pan camp did not adequately attract sponsorship and we were not able to pay the tutors. However, the same tutors came back despite that, with the knowledge that it may be the same this year. There are alwa

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When Steel Talks is a Forum for a handful of Members interested in the Well fare of Pan in the Mecca.or is a Panorama Forum for the others thousands of members who comes on only for Panorama!!!

Members of WST,Why only a handful of Members are on line expressing our views about the situation of Pantrinbago and the future of Pan in the Mecca of Pan and the other thousands of WST Members only comes on line for the Carnival and Panorama period

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Can't seem to get over this , pan people ...

Pan people , I cannot get over what a master stroke it was by the powers that be , to encourage Pan Trinbago to change from a union to a corporation , completely neutralizing their potential political power.

I mean , as a union , they could have run

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Following up an earlier thread....WHAT'S NEXT . PAN PEOPLE ?

Some thoughts from an earlier thread that I felt should be expanded on...

It seems obvious to me that the issues addressed on forums such as these , though they stir the blood of us who contribute to these forums , are not sufficient to excite the a

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Congrats to NY Pan Stars on Band Launch 2018

When Steel Talks extends congrats to NY Pan Stars, DJ BlaccHulk and featured artists Pan Evolution, Higher Levin, and Vybez Steel Orchestras on their performances at NY Pan Stars' 2018 Band Launch this past weekend.  You were outstanding...

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Columbia Middle School Graduates Eighth Grade Class

By BOBBIE PEER

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - The Columbia Middle School eighth grade promotion ceremony took place inside at the Ken Stiefel Theatre Monday evening due to the severe heat.

The tropical sound of the Columbia Steel Pan Ensemble kept the air

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How pan people gave away their power , and why they're paying for it .

One More thing my dear friends..

I once heard a quote to the effect that those who don't make plans are always surprised by those who do , especially by those who plan for the long term .

It occurred to me that someone far wiser than me realized the

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Vincy Mas is live now.

Vincy Mas is live now.

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Music to the ears

Kiran Mehta is a Mumbai-based journalist

Gather notes from every continent at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona

In the Lesser Antilles section, I feel like I’ve walked into a carnival with a jewel-encrusted outfit on display, complet

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Birthday Greetings!!!

Happy Birthday to His Worship The Mayor of San Fernando Alderman Junia Regrello !!!! The hardest working Mayor, San Fernando has seen to date. Also former Minister, Cultural Ambassador, Band Leader

(Skiffle) extraordinaire and a man I sometimes call

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Panorama Preview - UK

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On the subject of competition ( calypso and panorama ) music..

We know that our athletes get better by foreign competition.

Our educational standards are judged by and compared to international , universal standards.

But foreign music and compositions are excluded from panorama and calypso competitions because

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From Pan Trinbago -- Pan Trinbago Injunction

On July 9, 2018, High Court Justice Joan-Charles continued an injunction first granted on May 17, 2018, preventing Mr. Keith Diaz, the President of Pan Trinbago Inc, from summoning a Special Convention of Pan Trinbago for the purpose of amending the

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So is it true that a Pan event was canceled because of Pan Trinbago involvement?

Inquiring minds would like to know why this event was canceled.

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Dangers of corruption

by Prof Ramesh Deosaran

...In Parliament three Fridays ago – two days after witnessing the disturbing JSC meeting with YTEPP – Minister of Community Development, Culture and Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly dutifully laid out in Parliament the results of a

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WHAT AH MESS...

It looking like people are out to bankrupt the CIP, the chairman has been taken to court, this is the same tactic PT used on the New Visionaries.

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Court urges PanTrinbago execs - Set aside differences

EMBATTLED executive members of Pan Trinbago have been urged to set their differences aside in the nation’s best interest and work out a schedule for an election this year.

The suggestion was given by Justices of Appeal Peter Jamadar, Rajendra Narine

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Pantrinbago Dept, 1979 Panorama boycott, Savannah pool party, New Visionaries, CIP and others that opened our eyes.

It was stated on this forum by a poster that the Ministry of culture should wipe out Pantrinbago dept, but what about the Players and Steelbands locally and globally waiting to get paid from Pantrinbago,will that be wipe out also?  I don't see that h

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Webeat (part 1/3) Steel Band

Playing: La Creole Pan Groove, Chinese Steel Ensemble, MHL Starlift

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Panorama Competition is on - Antigua

The executive members of the Antigua and Barbuda Pan Association say it was never their intention to boycott the 2018 Antigua Commercial Bank Panorama Competition, despite information contained in a letter to the

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