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Is it CULTURE FIRST and COUNTRY SECOND or the other way around?

It is really hard for me to think about PANORAMA this year with oil sitting around $30.xx a barrel today and flirting with that psychological barrier that could send it crashing down to $25.00 a barrel or even lower. And the Trinidad budget is premis

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Randy Glasgow calls out TTCO

Fete promoter Randy Glasgow is calling on the Trinidad and Tobago Copyright Organisation (TTCO), to inform party organisers of the artistes they represent, so as to give them clarity when applying for copyright licences.

Glasgow tells LoopTT that the

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Tourism Ministry unveils Carnival plans

Visitor guides will be on hand to offer assistance to locals and visitors for the 2016 Carnival period.

The Tourism Ministry has confirmed that some 25 uniformed visitor guides will be strategically stationed along the streets of the capital city fr

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…BUT WE HATE THE SOCA by Burton Sankeralli

It appears as if everyone enjoys bashing today’s young people and their music. But so-called art forms are not abstract inventions

imposed on history. Rather they are carried in the vital living of community…and the engulfing violence.
So let us att

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5Star Akil makes VEVO with "Different Me" - 2016 tune of choice for Desperadoes & Soforzata

Directed by: Cowin Thorpe

Filmed By: Gabriel T.I Nagee

Executive Producer: Akil Borneo

Director of Photography: Melvern Isaac

Editor & Colorist: Cowin Thorpe

Behind The Scene & Grip: Melvern Isaac

Play back & Lighting: Ikenna Douglas

Makeup Artiste: Lise

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Prelims

Will there be a feed to see or hear the prelims this weekend 

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Single Pan Prelim Results - Moving on to the semi finals - Panorama 2016

Results - Single Pan Bands - PRELIMINARIES
Place	Score	Single Pan Bands	Arrangers	Tunes of Choice	Tuners
1	265	San Juan East Side Symphony	Duvone Stewart	No, No We Eh Going Home	Herman Guppy Brown
2	262	Trinidad East Side Symphony	Carlon Harewo

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JIT by DALTON NARINE

A When Steel Talks Exclusive

Global - Just a single name encapsulates this slight man, what he became and the huge legacy he left pan and country.

Imagine a shy East Indian panman/ arranger from Surrey, Lopinot, not your ordinary panist at all, being

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Categories

Ian Franklin, could you please let me know what year did Pan Trinbago introduce the categories for conventional bands in Panorama?

Kwame

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Improvements to Greens as party brands pull out of pan

by Laura Dowrich-Phillips  -- LOOP Magazine

Improved lighting, more security and extra parking are some of the improvements that have been made to the North Greens for this year’s Panorama semi-finals.

The improvements came in response to complaints

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Fetes at risk -- Trinidad & Tobago

One of the country's three copyright organisations, the T-T-C-O is threatening a showdown with promoters. The organisation plans to take legal action or disrupt events if promoters fail to comply.
But one promoter responds by challenging the organisat

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The Caribbean Mourns David Bowie

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SOCA MONARCH MONEY cut in half ... Trinidad turn upside down

When my party was in power we gave the SOCA MONARCH producers SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS and now this other Government cut the allocation in HALF. And that is their constituency. Ah never see thing so; like the country turn upside down.

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Humility was Jit’s hallmark

By Raffique Shah -- Trinidad and Tobago News Blog

“I don’t know who Jit Samaroo was, but listening to others speak, he must have been a great man…my condolences to his family.”

That was a caller from Princes Town to TV6’s Morning Edition’s host Hayde

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Socadrome stays for 2016

BY: Laura Dowrich-P... Loop

The Socadrome will continue to feature as part of the Carnival Monday and Tuesday parade in Port-of-Spain.

However, the bands that utilise the facility may still cross the Queen’s Park Savannah stage on those days.

Kenny D

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The Saga of Jit Samaroo - From Nobody To Somebody to Iron Man to the Great Beyond

by Simeon L. Sandiford

“Somebody will win this Panorama” quipped Keith Matthews of Trinidad All Stars as no fewer than nine bands played Winsford ‘Joker’ Des Vignes’ title song of 1989. In 1990 Jit whipped the field again with Lord Kitchener’s immort

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Crime makes iconic pan side homeless

The homeless plight of Laventille steelband Witco Desperadoes has afforded Port of Spain businessman Alfred Galy timely opportunity to demonstrate support for Carnival arts.

In urgent need of a panyard base to prepare for 2016 Panorama, Desperadoes h

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NCC audit coming after Carnival... Pantrinbago gets $30m, biggest slice of the pie

Chairman of the National Carnival Commission (NCC) Kenny Da Silva says it is time the commission raises its own funds and not depend on the public purse to stage the greatest show on earth.

When Carnival 2016 comes to a close on February 9, Da Silva

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Jit Samaroo’s funeral today

Saturday, January 9 2016 - Trinidad Newsday

THE funeral service for late pan icon, Jit Samaroo, takes place at 1pm today at the Aramalaya Presbyterian Church, Cochrane Street, Tunapuna. Samaroo’s remains will then be taken to the Surrey Village Publi

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Pan prelims fail to pull crowd in South

By Innis Francis - Trinidad Express

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