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Culture loses veterans in Mas, kaiso and pan
By Joan Rampersad Friday, October 28 2016 - Trinidad Newsday
IN THE past few days the culture fraternity has been morning the death of three veterans in Mas, kaiso and the pan arena. They are Cedric Lewis, Mas stalwart, steelpan lover and General Sec
Read more…On behalf of the PAN PLAYERS, who have not been paid for Panorama 2016, I would like to encourage the PRIME MINISTER and the MINISTER OF CULTURE to intervene immediately and PAY THE PAN PLAYERS!!!
This is NOT a TRINIDAD SCANDAL any more!!! This is a GLOBAL SCANDAL that PAN DOES NOT NEED. People from all over the world are reading about this corruption and you need to step in and resolve it. Keith Diaz has NO MONEY and he cannot and will not p
Read more…Pan Legend honored
Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz, second right, and secretary Richard Forteau, right, congratulate Anthony Williams after he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt), from the University of the West Indies, at a graduation ceremony hosted
Read more…"MONEY IS NOT A PROBLEM" but the PAN PLAYERS still have not been paid!!!
It is not like PAN TRINBAGO never had the money to pay the PAN MEN. I mean if you run up TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS in debt it means that PLENTY MONEY passed through your hands; not to mention the allocations you received from the government on top
Read more…Pan on D'Avenue 2016
Desperadoes
Renegades in town
All Stars on the Ave Woman on the Bass. Tempo.
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A BELMONT STREET FESTIVAL
BRING YOUR FAMILY TO OUR LAUNCH + FUNDRAISER and STREET FESTIVAL.
Jr panfest
Is there a list of the bands and arrangers that took part in the juinor panfest in brooklyn this saturday. the was saying it but was really very hard to hear what was being said of the small pa system they had.
Read more…A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.......
This is where the Government finds itself a few weeks before Panorama 2017, since they are the ones that fund it, all eyes are on them. The court of public opinion has already ruled on Pan Trinbago.
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Pan Players Mad As Hell at Pan Trinbago
The players are saying they are not going to take it anymore. There is so much turmoil that Pan Trrinbago had to pull its 2017 Panorama Schedule down from facebook and its website.
Read more…Jr panfest
Is there a list of the bands and arrangers that took part in the juinor panfest in brooklyn this saturday. the was saying it but was really very hard to hear what was being said of the small pa system they had.
Read more…I owe the readers and posters on this forum an apology for posting dated and erroneous information ...
I want to apologize to all the readers and posters on the forum for providing incorrect information relating to the debt incurred by PAN TRINBAGO under President Keith Diaz. For years I have stated that the PAN TRINBAGO debt is FIVE MILLION DOLLARS (
Read more…"WE MUST BECOME THE CHANGE WE WISH TO SEE"
On the 20th August 2016, at a meeting in Belmont,Trinidad, the membership of XL4Pan nominated and approved the following persons and positions:
Mr Salah Wilson - President - XPATS
Mr Cary Codrington - President - LOCALS
Mr Bertel Gittens - Treasurer
Read more…New Venue for Birdsong
A follow-up to a story we brought you two weeks ago, when Birdsong Steel Orchestra was thrown out on the streets by their landlord in Tunapuna. The band is slowly taking up residence at the old Works department at UWI, St. Augustine. They're determin
Read more…Culture minister: We’re looking at Pan Trinbago
COMMUNITY Development, Culture and the Arts Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly says her Ministry is looking closely at steelband organisation Pan Trinbago following allegations of questionable financial transactions and growing debt.
Vice president Byron
PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER
Tichona Shervington, Education Officer, Ian Franklin, Steelpan Historian Xtraordinaire and Brian Benoit, Trustee XL4Pan as they work on putting the pieces together.
We say welcome Mr Ian Franklin to the Xpats and Locals 4 Pan membership.
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