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If DUPRES did win/If AMAR did win/If VALENTINE did win -- allyuh think they woulda gone THREE WEEKS without a word to the STEELBAND PUBLIC (local and global)?
Anyone ah dem three MEN woulda have this organization BUZZING like ah BEE HIVE!!! Where ever in the world you are you would have been able to feel the energy and read daily reports of plans and progress on the PAN TRINBAGO WEBSITE. And get the urge t
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A message to Beverley Ramsey-Moore: “We can have grand goals but let’s be realistic about how we get there.”
Beverley: I get that line from a politician in Washington D.C. as he scolded some of the young far left candidates who just got elected to the Democratic Leadership.
So let us be realistic and focus on some small deliverables in the first few months.
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When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Erica Renaud
It is with great sadness that WST announces the unexpected passing of one of Brooklyn's most highly profiled panist - Erica Renaud..
Remembering Brooklyn Panist Erica Renaud...
https://www.panonthenet.com/woman/2017/erica-renaud.htm
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Ah thought that TEAM REBUILD was going and REBUILD
Except for MARCUS ASH, there are NO WORKERS on TEAM REBUILD. And the one opposition member (SANDRA AWAI) got a business background and knows how to produce, but she is ONE against NINE.
So is like having NO PRO!!!
After all the campaigning all we abo
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MARCUS: Ah go take it here!!! TEAM REBUILD giving me real horrors trying to ADAPT calypsos to the current crisis. So much so that my selections may seem farfteched to superficial calypso lovers ...
... and in truth and in fact, this is not why the CALYPSOS were written -- I mean they were written decades ago. But if you are a REAL CALYPSO LOVER and you stretch your imagination -- it will make a little sense!!!
Marcus Ash ah go take it here
Marc
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Earl Richards: Yuh well blow our chances. We was supposed to write a CALYPSO on "SHE WANT MORE IRON IN THE BAND" and yuh get slack and we missed the chance!!!
Earl Richards: I know that certain topics keep recurring -- with appropriate spacing -- every Carnival season. And I was quite sure that it was time for another "IRON" song -- and you was supposed to work out all the production details.
Now we loss w
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Classic use of a "IRON" hook: Square One -- The IRON have me so bazodee!!!
SOCA cannot get better than this!!!
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I thought that PEOPLE on this forum was interested in PAN PROGRESS. Well dey sure fool me!!!
As long as dey PARTY win, dey doh care if everything GO TO HELL ... whatever the level of politics.
Ah mean NOTHING eh happening with PAN TRINBAGO. The new leadership is clearly lacking in skills and never had an implementation plan for the first 30
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Somewhere over the rainbow
Schools District Music Festivals. District 3 - St. Joseph's Convent.
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An introduction to the COURTNEY LEIBA -- PAN STORY!!!
Courtney Leiba was well-known LOCALLY as the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band Scratcher-Man.
And then he became GLOBALLY KNOWN as the STEELBAND SCRATCHER-MAN.
Courteney toured throughout the British Caribbean Islands and America and Canada with TRIPOLI ST
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Family, friends stunned by DeFosto's death
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago. W.I. - Just three days after the calypso fraternity said farewell to the Mighty Shadow, De Original De Fosto Himself (Winston Scarborough) died of a suspected heart attack yesterday morning.
De Fosto,
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Cecil Hinkson: You are the external relations officer for TEAM REBUILD -- when are the pan players getting paid?
Cecil: I am expecting you to use your party influence in team rebuild and get the payments in the pipeline!!!
HURRY UP, NAH!!!
And doh forget my CANADIAN VISA -- meh Spanish eh good enough to live in California no more!
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T&T urged to market instrument: Take pan to the world
MORE children should be encouraged to play the steelpan as a way to enhance their academic performance, said Dr Kim Johnson while speaking to a group of Carnival stakeholders and educators at a workshop, “Transmission of the Carnival Arts Through Ed
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New York's Pan Community Loses One Of It's High Profile Members
Brooklyn man fatally slashes longtime girlfriend in neck then tries to kill himself: cops
A 58-year-old Brooklyn man fatally slashed his longtime girlfriend in the neck early Tuesday, then turned the knife on himself in a failed suicide bid, officia
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