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$500 PER PLAYER....
This is how the Pan Players are treated in 2017 in the Mecca, and they had to wait 6 months to collect it. Shame on all who stood by and watch this happen. Shame on all those who feel it's alright to disrespect Pan Players.Shame on the Pan Trinbago f
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Steve Weeks bids T&T goodbye
As the US celebrates its 241st birthday today, this American diplomat gets ready for new adventures
Published:
Monday, July 3, 2017
Steve Weeks came to his post in T&T after serving in embassies in Africa and the Middle East. With a
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Do you remember this slogan (PAN IS BEAUTIFUL)? Is Pan still beautiful or will the BIG 5 (ISF) give Pan a needed facelift to Charm the world again?
Not long ago I remember this slogan Pan is Beautiful, But in recent times things has change dramatically. Pantrinbago in debt, players not getting paid, So to right the ship, up comes the New Visionaries, CIP, UPPM, Gregory Lindsay, Aquil and others
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Bunji Garlin Are Stick Fighting Gurus In The “Buss Head” Video
Two titans of soca come together for one massive and motivational track.
by Jordan Darville -- FADER
Machel Montano and Bunji Garlin are two of soca's biggest stars and former rivals, so "Buss Head," their new collaborative single, is a tectonic ev
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JJJ: Do you know what "US 20090013851 A1" represents?
You need some high-powered lawyers, man!!!
And give me ONE WORD for "non-musical sympathetic vibrations" in the PAN!!!
https://www.google.com/patents/US20090013851
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Remembering when - Bunji, Fay Ann Pull out Soca Monarch shocker
Looking back
Bunji Garlin and Fay Ann Lyons-Alvarez have both bowed out of the International Groovy and Power Soca Monarch competitions, respectively.
The couple announced this last night, saying they decided to withdraw because they believe that fu
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Big 5 thrills Queen’s Park
JOAN RAMPERSAD Saturday, July 29 2017 |
CONFETTI rained on the crowd at the end of the International Steelband Foundation’s (ISF) Big 5 concert featuring the five bands that have won the National Panorama title over the years. The event took place
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Ah have to pay a special tribute to MERYTONESTOTHEBONE for his contributions to this forum. Not too many locals take the time to mix up with the nostalgic EXPATS
I appreciate how merrytonestothebone does come on the forum and suffer fools gladly from time to time. Because this forum is mostly an EXPAT PARADISE fixated in the SIXTIES on how things USED TO BE. merrytonestothebone does a nice little dance betwee
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MOVING FORWARD: The BIG FIVE FOUNDATION (ISA) eh put up a WEBSITE as yet?
FIVE established STEELBANDS with at least 150 members each and large followings and 6 HIGH LEVEL CONSULTANTS and they have not PUT UP A WEBSITE as yet in this 2017 era.
Not even a DOMAIN NAME with a FRONT PAGE saying coming soon!!! They need to step
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INTERESTING PERSPECTIVES from VARIED MINDS on the BIG 5 CONCERT!!!
But if we want PAN to move FORWARD/PROGRESS we have to get a MAJORITY of people on the same page. We have to TRASH OUT an agenda.
Until the LOCALS and EXPATS call a conference (in Las Vegas?) and try to find common ground -- it is ALL A WASTE OF TIME
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More Unrequested Advice for the Big5
First, congratulations on a great show.
Second get a copy of The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. Read it twice. Then apply what you have learned to dealing with Rolly Polly aka "KD" and his gangstas. Keep these fellas away from your organization.
If
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A most powerful result emerged out of the sonorous, multi-talented, Big Five steel band musical of the last weekend.
A most powerful result emerged out of the sonorous, multi-talented, Big Five steel band musical of the last weekend. The performances created the space for a few of the gr
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Pan in Splendor signals a resurgence of steel pan music in SKN
SKN.COM
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – DESPITE a reduction in training sessions for the 2017 Pan in Splendor Camp, the organizers were impressed with the level of response they received from the participants.
The camp, which was in its third year, saw t
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