Single Pan and Small Band Order of Appearance

Single Pan and Small Band Order of Appearance

Global - It’s show time for twenty seven (27) steelbands as the blink/bmobile National Panorama Small & Single Pan Bands Finals take centre stage this Thursday at the Larry Gomes Stadium Car Park, Arima, at 7:00 pm.

Sixteen (16) Single Pan Bands and eleven (11) Small Conventional Bands will play their Panorama tune before two separate panels of judges. Tickets priced at $60. will be on sale on the day of the event.

Two lucky patrons can win Return Tickets to any North American destination courtesy Caribbean Airlines.

First Small Band in the Single Pan category on stage will be United Sounds while Old Tech Steel Orchestra will kick off the Small Band competition

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evan lobo March 2, 2011 at 4:08pm

any known train line gunderos in the band??
Micheal Chance March 2, 2011 at 6:54am

Maybe they need to establish a relationship with the local Police Station.Then maybe the police will not come by to harass them but patrol the area to make sure that the young people involved receive the protection they need while they are not involved in crimes.Just a suggestion... and not just for Marines but for all Steelband leaders...
- Michael L Joseph > Micheal Chance March 2, 2011 at 7:47am
  
  Are we to be bullied into establishing such a relationship with the local Police Station? Would that answer the question about the national policy on the playing of the National Instrument? Is the Steel Pan Instrument still a noisy Instrument on the statutes of Trinidad and Tobago? We would like to exist by decree, and not by favor or friendship of anyone. Thank you.
  - A.L.Nunes > Michael L Joseph March 2, 2011 at 11:35am
    
    Seek legal advice. Contact your MP - but for God's sake, your sake and your players' sake FORGET Pan Trinbago - the entire board has absolutely no credibilty. NOR do they have your interest at heart.
    
    And if you think a bribe (which I do not subscribe to) would work, I doubt you could offer sums like UTC, CAL, BMobile, RBTT and the like.
  - Edwin > Michael L Joseph March 2, 2011 at 9:52am
    
    I am with you on this Scobie. I thought we were past this kind of nonesense
    
    -your Nephew
  - Bugs > Michael L Joseph March 2, 2011 at 9:08am
    
    "Hear! Hear! Hear!"
    
    Tell Dem!
    
    bugs
Kelly-ann Renaud March 2, 2011 at 6:30am

This is rediculous, i hope that someone in authority answers your plight.
Michael L Joseph March 2, 2011 at 2:58am

The Southern Marines Steel band Foundation of Marabella is amongst the Small Steelbands practicing hard to take the title of Small band Champions 2011. Some how we are starting to believe that there is a plot by somebody or body of People to distract our members from their set goal. The last time I raise this issue, I was given the assurance that the matter would be dealt with, and we should continue our reheasals without fear. But today, I do have some reservations. Again tonight March 1st, two nights before the National Small Bands Finals, the Police in the person of officer Cupid and another who did not give his name, is intimedating our membership by insisting that we are breaking the Law, and that we must have a permit giving us permission to assemble to beat drums. Now my difficulty lies in the fact that since the first set of harassment some weeks ago, no one informed us on the facts of the Police claim. We starting to believe that we are being targeted. When five or more Police Officers in a district start to warn and threaten you over your action, is time for concern. But what are we doing? Playing the National Instrument, Preparing to represent our area in the National Panorama, which we believe to be something worthy of compliments. Please, I am asking again for someone in authority to give us the assurance that we are not being targeted for harassment, and that we are not breaking the Law. This situation is having an adverst effect on the minds our youthful membership, who are expressing reservation with coming on the roads for Carnival. And Southern Marines is bringing Mas in 2011. Please, somebody,tell us what is the policy on the playing of the National Instrument of Trinidad and Tobago. We want no war with the Police, but we also don't want any officer taking it upon him or herself to try and stop our Freedom of Expression.Last year the Police stop the band from playing music three hundred yards from our Pan Theater, on our way home. If we know that this is likely to happen again, we will scrap the Mas and not come on the Roads.

Michael L Joseph

Bro. Scobie

President of

Southern Marines Steel band Foundation
- Randi Curvan > Michael L Joseph March 2, 2011 at 9:07am
  
  I thought this went out of fashon in the 50s. I remember my father saying how they chased Casablanca boys again from the lanes of belmont at christmas time. In those days they would drop the heavier instruments and run off.
  
  And they wonder why no one repects the uniform any more, nothing but idiots being recruited in the force nowadays. Even if there is an old outdated law on the statutes, have they never heard "the Law is an Ass".
  
  I think these two should be transfered to Lavantille patrol preferably on foot without bullet proof vests.
  
  That will soon sort them out
- Hugh Haydn Anthony > Michael L Joseph March 2, 2011 at 5:48am
  
  Why don't you address The Commissioner of Police and Pan Trinbago on the issue ?

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