Ah want three things from this NEW PAN TRINBAGO ADMINISTRATION

From the first day I want them to hire Doctor Peter deLight as EDITOR. No correspondence should be sent out from PAN TRINBAGO unless it is thoroughly vetted and edited by Doctor deLight!!! And as a condition of his employment he will be WORKING FROM

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"Steelpan no wakusei"(スティールパンの惑星= Steelpan Planet )

by Koruri Hanato

"Pan! Our Music Odyssey", renamed "Steelpan no wakusei"(スティールパンの惑星=The Steelpan Planet ), has been in at Uplink, a theater in Tokyo Japan, since 23rd Sep. At the beginning, the screening term was only 2 weeks, but it's been already e

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Biting the Carnival funding bullet

Recently completed audits of the accounts of the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) and the National Carnival Bandleaders Association (NCBA), as reported exclusively in the Sunday Express, are a serious indictment of their financial ma

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Cecil Hinkson: Yuh ever imagine that YOU and ME woulda keep this forum ALIVE for so many years so that the CIP could now come and run an ELECTION CAMPAIGN here?

Ah hope we have TWO JOBS coming once they GAIN OFFICE!!!

But RUSSELL say that AQUIL is only a FRONT!!! And with 30 men (ON THE LIST) vying for 10 JOBS -- it eh looking good for me and you at all.

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Pan in China

Trinidad Express

Samaroo Jets Steel Orchestra, celebrating 50 years this year, represented Trinidad and Tobago at China’s premier trading event for Latin American and Caribbean countries. The 2017 China-Latin America and the Caribbean International

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Panorama NEEDS an UPGRADE

In a response to merrytonestothebone, Brother Aquil proposed this idea of how the Panorama should be upgraded to help benefit pan players financially. I suggest we all can help him by providing our ideas on what will work best to bring this idea to f

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I don't understand how 20,000 members on WHEN STEEL TALKS and 10,000 PAN MEN in Trinidad plus Gregory Lindsay and Aquil Arrindell could all be THINKING the same!!!

I don't understand how ALL THESE PEOPLE could THINK that ANYBODY in this T&T Government will take any steps of any nature against KEITH DIAZ and PAN TRINBAGO. And I don't understand why Aquil Arrindell will be expecting PAN MEN to suddenly wake up on

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DOLLY make ah next empty promise and 11 days gone already ...

Minister Dr Nyan Gadbsy-Dolly said (about 11 days ago) that despite the absence of an NCC board plans for Carnival 2018 have been ongoing and the new board will NOT have to start at zero.

And she promised to have the new board installed in two weeks!

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Well dey ban me from talking about the FORENSIC AUDIT and they even want to ban me from attacking KEITH DIAZ on this forum

So I doh know what to talk about any more. If I talk about how THE PARTY flood out DEM YANKEES out of the RUSSIA CUP -- ah bong to get in more trouble.

And the CIP was supposed to bring some supporters on this forum to keep the attacks on KEITH DIAZ

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So the BIG 5 tief somebody else idea and RISE TO FAME?

This TRINI TING real complex!!! If you look at the CONSULTANT LIST from the BIG 5, they could not be any more ACCOMPLISHED. And to think that they would steal a concept from the POOR LAVENTILLE PEOPLE is quite DISTURBING.

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Some people want to see PAN MEN in TRINIDAD reading MUSIC SHEETS to PLAY "JEAN AND DINAH"

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KEITH DIAZ: COMMANDER IN CHIEF!!!

Allyuh remember this picture?

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Everybody on this FORUM just want to LIVE IN THE PAST like this is a RETIREMENT HOME

Well PAN is in dire need of some FUTURE THINKING!!! PAN needs HEROES of the DAY. Ah fellah named CYRUS (I think that was his name) came on the FORUM once and made that observation along with some notes on the contradictory content of those who so pro

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2017 USSA Elections - Announcement

On the day of questions for the  USSA board trustees only two persons will be allowed from each band . Members wishing to ask questions can give their questions to the representing captains and managers of the bands to be answered .

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Andy Neils - one of the best young tuners of today

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Well "THE BIG 5" really shake up the PAN WORLD down in TRINIDAD!!!

TWO SPECTACULAR PAN SHOWS BACK TO BACK. And from what I hear they have more BOMBS to drop on STEELBAND LOVERS in TRINIDAD than DONALD TRUMP have NUKES.

And they found the KEY to TRINIDAD HEARTS in terms of MUSICAL CONTENT. So they have the LOCAL MARK

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Youths make T&T proud

Trinidad Guadian

Merkisa Pierre, 17, one of the graduates and vice captain of Desperadoes Youth Steel Orchestra said that it was Ginelle Mc Donald who recommended her as one of the internees. “Ginelle of Jabulous Communications was one of the lecture

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A journey and lesson in pan

GARY CARDINEZ Monday, September 11 2017

He also said some of the content was told to him by others who grew up with him.

This is Fyfe’s fifth book, one which is completely different from the first four. He describes the others as instructional books

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CONCERNED INDIVIDUALS FOR PAN: What are you doing to recover the STOLEN $500 from PAN MEN?

At least you could write a letter to Rowley or Dolly or the newspapers and register a complaint. The biggest problem facing PAN MEN is that they all belong to THE PARTY so they have to swallow whatever THE PARTY push down dey throat.

Mindset change?

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Wey de hell pan reach?

Taking a page from Cro Cro's Wey pan reach, Fanfare & Associates will portray Look Wey de Hell Pan Reach for J'Ouvert 2018. The band will have its launch on Republic Day (September 24) at Issa's Pub, 130 Henry Street, Port-of-Spain, from 6 pm, with m

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