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PRESIDENT DIAZ and PRESIDENT PENCE -- Looks like I will be living under these TWO PRESIDENTS for years to come

Well I just got some inside information on how KEITH DIAZ plans to destroy the CIP; and there is very little doubt that DONALD TRUMP is going to get impeached and PENCE will STEP UP. So it looks as if I am going to be spending my next few years under

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Did the CIP have a PRIVATE AGENDA to SHUT DOWN THIS FORUM?

OUT OF THE BLUE the CIP came on this forum pushing a "non-political" agenda. (Except that me and merrytonestothebone SO SMART we read them like the ABC!) Now, when all of a sudden, serious topics about RACE and GLOBAL PAN STARS and BRINGING PAN BACK

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ANYBODY remembers reading this article?

PM TO HELP FIND PAN TRINBAGO A NEW HOME

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20150923/news/pm-to-help-find-pan-trinbago-a-home

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I would like to offer a little bit of PRAISE to CECIL HINKSON for all the work he has done to keep this forum alive!!!

For some odd reason I have lived my whole life being an OBSERVER. It is like I never was a REAL PERSON just some observer looking on at life. So in that context, I would like to THANK Cecil Hinkson for the contributions he has made to this PAN FORUM.

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WELL, the CIP served a GOOD PURPOSE on this FORUM

They opened up discourse. And they also showed the DEEP DIVISION among LOCALS; and LOCALS and EXPATS. I really wish that more ACTIVE PARTICIPATION can continue. And I do wish that the CIP could bring their WST HATERS to come and belch their disgust o

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WE KINDA MUSIC -- Winsford Devine and SPARROW ... one of my favourite Calypsoes!!!

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CALYPSO ROSE wins another award

"Co-produced by Stonetree Music's Ivan Duran and Drew Gonsalves from Kobo Town, with Manu Chao sprinkling his magic on several tracks, Far From Home is a joyous, turbo-charged update on calypso tradition for a 21st-century global audience, Rose garni

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I want to say this and I want to say this ONCE ONLY. The CIP is a FAILED ORGANIZATION and should NOT be a TOPIC of discussion on this FORUM!!!

KEITH DIAZ is going to chop this organization into LITTLE BITS. And anybody who can't see that is a fool who CAME TO TRINIDAD ON A BOAT!!!

As a matter of fact, I am willing to MEND FENCES with KEITH DIAZ and destroy the CIP. Yuh hear meh MISTER DIAZ?

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Plans for Saint Lucia Carnival 2017 underway

GIS:-In order to evolve, the provision of training in costume design, lyric writing, and steelpan music is being assessed.

Plans are in place to ensure the sustainability of Carnival 2017 as part of the new Soleil Saint Lucia Summer Festival.

Thomas

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Chroma Steel Band de passage

Chroma Steel Band étaient déjà venu sur la commune pour les Nuits romanes il y a 2 ans.Alors qu'ils se rendaient à Nantes pour le Festival National des Steelbands le lendemain, ils ont souhaité faire une halte, vendredi, sur la commune de Châtain où

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Pan Trinbago can’t even pull off a successful sports day. Congratulations to the comPANion sports team.

 

Pan Trinbago can’t even pull off a successful sports day. Congratulations to the comPANion sports team.

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

Congratulations to the organizers of the comPANion sports of hosting yet another successful sports day, all with limited

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Can CIP produce a weekly news column on Pan happenings in Trinidad and Tobago in the WST forum?

With all the young people graduating from college in Trinidad and Tobago every year I find it incredulous that the national news papers in Trinidad and Tobago could not find one deserving graduate to write a weekly column about Trinidad Pan issues. I

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Real Questions for CIP

1. Is CIP an advocacy group for the players?
   
   
2. How long will it take you to become self-sufficient?. 
   
   
3. Will you be responsible for all things Pan in Trinidad and Tobago?
   
   
4. At the moment Trinidad and Tobago is the bringing up the rear in promoting and market

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CONGRATULATIONS to "EXODUS" for breaking through the "TONG BARRIER" and making it to the "BIG FIVE FOUNDATION"

I am personally thrilled to see EXODUS included in the "BIG 5" and I love the VISION put forward by the "BIG 5" -- in the music industry, COLLABORATION IS KING. I want to buy two tickets to the JULY 22ND show for TWO PEOPLE from St. John to attend.

L

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THE EXPATS WHO LOVE PAN should organize an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PAN!!!

If the 50,000 members on WHENSTEELTALKS who sincerely love the PAN want to see ANY GLOBAL PROGRESS -- they certainly CANNOT leave it to the LOCAL PAN COMMUNITY.

JUST LOOK AT THE FACTS ON THE GROUND.

And read the articles that ODW just POST and tell m

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New York Steel Orchesrtras still have not been paid for Panorama 2016

The mood is far from good. It has been brought to WST's attention that NY bands have not been paid for 2016.

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‘Big 5’ launch at Savannah pan concert

Newsday

FIVE top steelbands will launch a foundation at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of- Spain, in July with an event titled Big 5 – The Pan Concert.

Massy Trinidad All Stars, Desperadoes, bp Renegades, Republic Bank Exodus and Phase II Pan Groove

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BERTEL GITTENS: The CIP real STUPID, boy!!!

Dey doh know how long we been at this WST GAME?

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I was very curious about the BORDERS FESTIVAL ...

I was following the development of this show since it was first announced -- in silence. I was very curious about the AMBITION (the massive scope of the show) and was waiting to see how it was going to PAN OUT!!!

Borders festival called off

http://ne

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Winning music festival piece

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