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
Read more…We are in DESPERATE NEED of a REAL MINISTER OF CULTURE!!!
Read more…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
Read more…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
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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2007
| 2007 | ** TT$ 1,000,000 (approx USD $158,000) first place prize for Panorama Champions
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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
Read more…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!
Read more…By next week it will be decided whether Soca Monarch will take place this year.
It is time to switch to FUNCTION!!!
Read more…reviews a book by musician and political activist David Randall that looks at the role music can play in making social change.
Steel pan musicians march in Port of Spain, Trinidad
IN SOUND System: The Political Power
| 1985 |
 Rudolph Charles famed leader of Desperadoes
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... 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
Read more…[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
Read more…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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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
Read more…There is an abundance of research and articles supporting the claim that LOUD MUSIC could damage your hearing.
(Another article on the topic just for good measure:https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/290185.php)
So I would like to see this proje
Read more…I think that we reached the other end of the rainbow last week when Justice Vasheist Kokaram ruled against reactionary behaviour by the Minister of Culture. We also saw the end of the CIP. In retrospect the CIP was an opportunistic spinoff from Byron
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Renegades and 
Desperadoes both tie to win the Trinidad & Tobago Panorama - playing the same tune Pan