Newsday
PANMEN who went to the bank yesterday attempting to cash cheques individually valued at $1,000, left empty-handed and singing a sour tune, after the cheques ‘bounced’ with bank officials saying there was no money to pay them.
This was confir
by Andre Moses
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ...Gradually and seemingly ‘unnoticed’ the crowds and national enthusiasm generated by the Steelband Panorama have begun to dissipate, and like West Indies cricket the symptoms of this ‘loss of energy’ are qu
Read more…Guyana Information Agency
Georgetown, Guyana, S.A. - Over the last five years, there has been a boost in the appreciation and participation in steel pan music. A committed investment has been made on a yearly basis for the provision of three steel
Read more…merrytonestothebone: Ah know that you will not get vex with me for borrowing your expression. But this drama is getting "curiouser and curioser". Just this morning I told bugs that the script was TOO ALL OVER THE PLACE little did I know that by night
Read more…Reports of PT checks bouncing like basketballs are all over the INTERNETS (like George Bush called it). Inquiring minds would like to know if Pan Trinbago issued these checks to the players as a collectors item. Just asking...
If these checks continu
Newsday
Concerns arose that pannists had not been paid, against a backdrop of Culture Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly saying the allocation had been sent to Pan Trinbago, against claims that Pan Trinbago is $30 million in debt and concerns about Pan Tr
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pamberi Steel Orchestra is a steelband located in the San Juan community of east Trinidad where the majority of the members were born and reside. Last year, 2016, there were National Champions emerging from within our commun
Panmen staged a peaceful protest outside the head office Pan Trinbago yesterday demanding the immediate resignation of its president Keith Diaz and the entire executive.
The protest was mounted in the wake of the non-payment of monies to panmen for P
Read more…Received from one Tobago Steelband, on behalf of other bands on the sister isle:
Subject: Emergency meeting---Did not take in consideration for Tobago bands to attend!!!!!
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Many Bands from Tobago cannot make it to that said meeting (emer
Read more…I remember the first time that I compared the political skills of Keith Diaz to Barack Obama on this forum some people found my comparison absurd and got mad at me. But, today, I could go further and say that Keith Diaz is proving to be a better poli
Read more…dont fal for the pres BS , STAND YOUR GROUND IF YOU WANT HIM OUT DOI TH RIGHT THING AND TAHE HIM OUT, GEt A LAWYER AND BE WELl REPRESENTEDE
Read more…Panorama could still be held,suspend present executives,with government,cdc ,pan players getting together.players were not paid for last year prize monies(was made to understand).which mean't the shows went on with limited funds.let committee from ba
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - On the national television program ME (Morning Edition), Trinidad and Tobago National Carnival Commission (NCC) Chairman Kenneth De Silva, in responding to ME host Fazeer Mohammed, declared that if the embattled Pan Trinbago
Serious problems with Pantrinbago, Panorama and the outstanding monies owed to Pan Players in 2016, this is 2017 and as Merchant said a long ago Pan in danger and Merrytonestothebone said ALL STARS statement is confusing, ALL STARS said preparation f
Read more…bach to normal after Carnival
Read more…The Philadelphia Tribune
Philadelphia, USA - African-American performance groups who showed in the Mummers Parade on Sunday, said they were glad to be apart of the Mummers’ ongoing effort to diversify.
The Mummers parade has historically been chast
Read more…Trinidad Newsday -- ANGELO M MARCELLE
On the heels of Pan Trinbago’s membership calling for a boycott of Panorama this year due to non payment of performance money for the 2016 Carnival season, another organisation has found itself in somewhat of a s
Read more…Time for Rolly Polly to Resign, Apologize, Disappear and take the "Photo" with him. But first he must return all the pan children 2016 Christmas monies - or get fitted for orange jumper suits,
Read more…How can the NCC declare there will be a Panorama when the players have not yet made that declaration? Is there a back room deal going on with PT without the players knowledge?
One thing we do know for sure is that the NCC needs the 2017 Panorama to g
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