WHAT IS THIS?: A vendor points to a space where a sink is supposed to be inside a booth at the Queen’s Park Savannah yesterday. Vendors are facing a myriad of problems with the booths provided to them by the NCC. PHOTO BY RYAN HAMILTON-DAVIS
....The tragedy is that pan, the soul of Carnival, continues to disappear from our mas. It is being reduced to bastard-sister status in Carnival. After the Panorama competition, only a few bands appear on the streets on Jouvert mornin
I am expecting SKIFFLE to make a BIG MOVE tomorrow but I think that they made a psychologically irrevocable error when they decided to SKATE IN to the SEMIS.
Ah wait ah whole year for these FELLAHS to give DUVONE ah good run for the 1st place money a
When are they going to wake up and realize that they have a BIG GLOBAL FAN BASE that could be integrated into the whole effort of GLOBALIZING the TRINIDAD PAN MUSIC and bringing in the FOREIGN EXCHANGE that they SO LOVE to talk about.
National Carnival Commission (NCC) Winston “Gypsy” Peters made a quick run for the exit yesterday when confronted by irate regional Carnival representatives, upset by the significantly less subv
There is a kind of positive energy associated with Carnival and particularly with the steelband movement. Players survive on less sleep and exhibit discipline and high levels of productivity in order to learn their Panorama tune.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The top fourteen small steel orchestras out of the thirty that made it into the semi-finals - now advance to the Final round of the Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2019 competition. The finals unfold on February 28.
Armed with a song (Hookin’ Meh) that has captured the spirit and imagination of the country like few have in the recent past, one has to wonder: what was in those “extra large garbage bags” being waved by fans from the high-rise
Judges gave San City the nod with an unpopular song, why? Voice and Rudder’s Madness.
It has been five years of drought for San City. Since moving up to the medium category, they have only now gotten the nod from the judges. Based on the band’s an
Anyone knows if there will be TV coverage of this year's panorama online like in the past? Today I was trying to go to ctntworld.com and I got a warning to upgrade my flash-player. I stop right there as this seems bogus to me, and there is no other
As the news went viral and the ripple of shock rose to a crescendo of outrage, embarrassment and recrimination, Michael Cooper sent out a WhatsApp message: “Well… well… well. I guess we need to see things in black and white to believe.”
Please consider the Savannah as an option for Panorama Preliminaries, you already have everything that's needed in place to facilitate this event, Grand Stand, North Park, Parking. everything would be in one area.
NCC chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters
