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Redemption Song The rise, fall and ultimate triumph of Howard soccer

The first historically black college to win an NCAA title should’ve been the 1971 Howard University soccer team. Coached by a man named Lincoln Phillips, a collection of men of color from all over the world beat predominantly white powerhouse Saint L

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HOW MUCH DOES IT COST FOR A TOBAGO BAND TO COMPEAT IN THE MECCA?

It's about time someone look at the cost incurred in moving around steelbands for panorama, especially the bands from Tobago. The money spent on transport and accommodation ain't no chump change and has nothing to do with the steelband. Time to have

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No $$ for Carnival 2017

GARY CARDINEZ Thursday, December 29 2016

WITH two months to go before the Reign of the Merry Monarch - Carnival Monday - it appears that no money has been set aside for the major culture organisations in the country.

Checks with both Pan Trinbago hea

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Steel Pan comes to UND

Nick Sallen, Editor-in-Chief - Dakota Student 

Dakota Student / Nicholas Nelson

A dozen band members ran onto the Chester Fritz Auditorium stage to start the Steel Pan Band Concert. Wearing floral patterned shirts to enhance the carribean theme, th

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An Expat’s Story

I left Trinidad in October 1966 I was seventeen. At the time, it was hoped I would continue and finish my education in England and return at some point to continue where I left off. The best laid plans of mice and men…. Fate had other plans.

After co

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It's starting to look a lot like NO PANORAMA 2017 ...

Keith Diaz teef out all the money and lead PANORAMA to bankruptcy. Not a word from the voices of authority. Bugs used to call the DIAZ CREW gangsters but now the Police Complaints Director calling the POLICE gangsters. So Keith Diaz coming out clean

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Where is the PAN MUSIC XPATS and LOCALS for PAN?

I am fed-up reading about Byron Serrette and his media blitz as he attempts to displace MY PRESIDENT from the seat of power in PAN TRINBAGO.

I want to revisit the contract we have with XL4PAN to produce a PAN CD for GLOBAL EXPORT. I see them organizi

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Doctor Dolly says PAN PLAYERS MONEY PAID

"Government has therefore supplied the entire 2016 subvention to Pan Trinbago and expects they would remit what is outstanding to the members of their organisation.”

Doctor Dolly also says: “I continue to be accessible to all persons as much as possi

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The CARIRI Project - The worlds first steelpan press

In 1972, the first scientific study of the characteristics of pan was initiated at the University of the West Indies (UWI) at St. Augustine, Trinidad, by Ron Dennis, a lecturer in the Engineering Department. Dennis, who was from England, analyzed the

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“Portrait and Pan”- A Publication On Steel Pan Music Launched

Written by Guyana Inc Staff

It is no surprise that within the past few years there has been an increase in not only the participation but also the appreciation of steel pan music in Guyana. This is due in part to the actions of the Ministry of Educa

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A,A. what happen CeciL,he is the first man to ask WST to post the new 2017 Pan songs, there are over one dozen posted and he is silent as if he knows something about pantrinbago and the 2017 Panorama

Cecil you is the first person to ask WST to post the 2017 Pan song and tell us which ones you like, and the year almost done and no word from you. Why the silence like you know something about Pantrinbago and the 2017 Panorama. What ever it is tell u

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The purpose of this forum should be to integrate the HUMAN RESOURCES we have around the world!!!

PAN LOVERS and CALYPSO LOVERS from around the world are in the greatest position to contribute to the progress of PAN and CALYPSO MUSIC GLOBALLY. Computer systems did not gain world domination until they became INTEGRATED. So it is IMPERATIVE that th

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After all the OLE TALK on this forum for all the years, the administration of PAN in T&T seems to be on the edge of the precipice

Plenty talk on this forum about the ADMINISTRATION OF PAN in T&T. (Like people forget that if wishes were horses beggars would ride.)

Ah read about BlackPrint and RedPrint and BluePrint for PAN and Ministry of PAN and XL4PAN and PAN ON THE ROAD for C

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ANTIGUA ROCKING SOCA

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I like this 2017 CALYPSO VIDEO!!!

Wicked Video from Barbados

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Frankie McIntosh - Garvin Blake - Big Band version of Beckett's "Teaser"

A look at a big band arrangement and performance of Beckett's smash hit "Teaser" by Frankie McIntosh

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West Indian Parade Group to Move Headquarters to Armory, Developer Says

CROWN HEIGHTS — The planned Bedford-Union Armory redevelopment has its first tenant lined up.

The organizers of the neighborhood’s famous West Indian Day Parade will move their headquarters to the city-owned former military building on Bedford Avenu

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Black Teens Are Breaking The Internet And Seeing None Of The Profits

Young creatives are using social media to shape the culture we consume. But what happens when they don’t own their work?

Part of the reason the originators of viral content are stripped from their labor is because they don’t technically own their pro

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IS IT POSSIBLE?

That pan players not be paid again in 2017?

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Now that the WST CLAN get their PANORAMA they suddenly don't care about the PAN MEN PAY for 2016 anymore

Everybody on the FORUM jumping up high high high now -- dey getting dey PRECIOUS PANORAMA. No more talk about PAN MAN STRIKING or PAN MAN getting pay for 2016. Even Keith Diaz who thought about engaging in a political battle with Dr. Dolly put down h

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