FOR IMMEDIATE TRANSMISSION : PRE PostCABINET Briefing regarding Carnival Budget 2018

This will be announced at Post Cabinet briefing today.

The Budget for Carnival 2018 is 171 Million TTD.....

PanTrinbago's allocation is 20.5 Million TTD.....

This coming out of a communiqué from Chairman of NCC to President of PanTrinbago, read out t

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Sponsorship

Why do you think it is so hard for steel bands to find sponsorship. 

Take a country like Grenada few bands but lots of hotels and super markets if one business sponsors one band or assist it will go a long way.

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GREGORY LINDSAY: The Englsh Lady refused to take CALYPSO lessons from me and you refused to take POLITICAL lessons from me.

When I look in my CRYSTAL BALL I can only see ONE THING: She will never learn about CALYPSO and you will never learn about POLITICS.

At least she will end up touring MORIN BAY and trying to learn about TADPOLES, FROGS and CALYPSO.

Your future seems S

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ARE ALL PANMEN DEAF? Health Safety and Steelband.

Question for the septuagenarians (That means persons 70 years old and older)

I asked Peter Blood (a respected "cultural journalist" among other things) recently, if he remembers an ENT specialist, or otolaryngologist by the name of Dr Aziz who wrote

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I would like to see THE PRIME MINISTER reshuffle his CABINET this year and get rid of the incompetent DOCTOR DOLLY!

We are in DESPERATE NEED of a REAL MINISTER OF CULTURE!!!

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GREGORY LINDSAY: Please come back and help us keep the forum alive!!!

Gregory, for one thing you owe us the back story on the Ainsworth Mohammed resignation. And for thing number two we kept your campaign alive here always responding to your postings and keeping your TOPIC on top of the page. We even bring a lady quite

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THE MISSING INGREDIENT FROM TODAY'S PAN TUNES - STORIES?

It has suddenly occurred to me that the biggest difference between pan tunes of today and those of yesteryear is not about the music , but the story.
Great panorama selections of the past were all arrangements of calypso music that told stories we kn

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Rain or shine, Panorama goes on

GARY CARDINEZ

The preliminary round of the judging of the 2018 Panorama for Single Pan bands got off to a late start in the Eastern Region on Sunday afternoon in unpredictable weather.

Players and supporters of Trinidad East Side Symphony came out in

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Pan History - Looking back at the year 2007 in Pan

2007

2007	**  TT$ 1,000,000 (approx USD $158,000) first place prize for Panorama Champions Branches Steel Orchestra is the “House Band” for the January 4th Inaugural Ball of the newly-elected Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick - history was made

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Cecil Hinkson: Not only do you have to bring PAN BACK ON THE ROAD you also have to bring PATRONS back to the CALYPSO TENT!!!

Cecil: Yuh have yuh work cut out for you, boy!!!

“There has been a definite decline in patronage and this is because the public, who supported tents, have either died or become old. We have not been able to nurture a younger public, who are more focu

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ONE MAN!!! One man, RUSSELL PROVIDENCE, came and changed the whole culture on THIS FORUM!!!

Now everybody say that I jump on the man BANDWAGON from the very first day that he came on. Even my NOVICE POLITICIAN (Aquil Arrindell) lost his center of gravity when he saw me cavorting with the NEW MESSIAH.

But the secret to life is TO LOOK AHEAD!

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To SOCA MONARCH or NOT To SOCA MONARCH: Decision coming this week!!!

http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2018-01-05/minister-decision-soca-monarch-next-week?utm_source=spotim&

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Ah doh care what NOBODY SAY!!! But I am willing to bet DIAMONDS TO DOLLARS that DR. deLight is the most HIGHLY EDUCATED poster that ever came on this forum!!!

It is time to switch to FUNCTION!!!

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Sound theories

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Pan History - Looking back at the year 1985 in Pan

1985

1985	Rudolph Charles, famed leader of the legendary Desperadoes Steel Orchestra - passes away Rudolph Charles famed leader of Desperadoes Renegades and Desperadoes both tie to win the Trinidad & Tobago Panorama - playing the same tune Pan

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GREGORY LINDSAY: I know that you are an INTELLIGENT FELLAH, but there is ONE WORD that is missing from your vocabulary ...

... C-R-E-D-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y!!!

There is a HIGHLY EDUCATED MAN (THE MOST HIGHLY EDUCATED ON THE FORUM) who has an unlimited vocabulary -- I call him Dr. deLight but I think that his name is PETER. So I am urging you to contact this erudite DOCTOR and se

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I would like to see GREGORY LINDSAY come on the FORUM and admit that the BATTLE IS OVER. Time to talk about PANORAMA 2019!!!

[The ORIGINAL POST said 2018 -- but since THE CIP is in a LIMBO LOOP, I modified it to 2019.]

No more "promises" and "wait and see" and "fat lady waiting to sing" and "the Minister about to drop bombshells" and other assorted wishful thinking. We gav

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No cuts in Panorama prizes

Officials of Pan Trinbago and the board of the National Carnival Commission agree to maintain the existing prize structure for Panorama 2018.

 

However, a settlement on the Players Remittance, remains in abeyance.

 

Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz 

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The Art Work of Panorama 2018

The Art Work of Panorama 2018

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AQUIL ARRINDELL HAS A LOT TO OFFER

I saw this posting on Facebook earlier, I suppose it's just a matter of time before WST uploads it here, please permit me the liberty to again share this awesome rendition, a magnificent performance by Aquil Arrindell.

Talented young man that, who in

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