My GUESSTIMATE is that about $40,000,000 was SPENT on PANORAMA 2019 -- and what do we have to show for it!!!

That $40,000,000 could have BUILT OUT a massive EVENTS CENTER/HEADQUARTERS which in turn could have generated at least a 10% annual CASH ON CASH (ROI) -- forever and ever ... AMEN!!!

Not to mention all the BENEFITS to the STEELBAND COMMUNITY!!!

2020:

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THE MOST INFLUENTIAL CALYPSO of ALL TIME?

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Review: ‘(M)iyamoto Is Black Enough’ and then some at the Wallis

By Mark Swed

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MARCUS ASH, LIAM TEAGUE and SILVER STARS win LARGE BAND PEOPLE'S CHOICE 2019

CONGRATULATIONS to the ENTIRE ORGANIZATION!!!

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Complete Summary of Results of all Conventional Steel Orchestras - 2019 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - At a glance and on a single page, access the comprehensive summary of results for the Small, Medium and Large conventional steel orchestras that participated in their respective categories in the 2019 Panorama.

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Ah feel that if CHANTAL ESDELLE and JOHANNA CHUCKAREE go to the studio as a team, they could produce a WORLD CLASS PAN CD!!!

They bring down a good SOUND ENGINEER and a good MUSIC PRODUCER from America and they go to the studio and use the INDIGISOUNDS SAMPLES and produce a CD with POPULAR SONGS.

During one of the PANORAMA BROADCASTS, Chantal talked about "the watery glass

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Revisited - Meet Patrice Lewis-Lett - Trinidad & Tobago

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

“There is a lack of real opportunity to showcase how dynamic and far-reaching the art form is. How many panists or bands fully function throughout the year? What about career opportunities beyond carniv

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Port of Spain -- Looking Back

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Revisiting - Meet Yoshihiro Harada - Explorer, Pioneer, Panist, Composer, Arranger, Educator, Recording Artist and Band leader - UpClose!

Japan - Yoshihiro Harada heard and fell in love with the sound of the steelpan in the late 80s. That was all it took. For the rest of his life Harada and the steelpan would have an inseparable love affair.

He is one who believes in the power of the

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Well, STARLIFT need ah NEW ARRANGER!!! And EXODUS need ah NEW ARRANGER ... what the hell, leh meh go down THE LIST!!!

BIRDSONG needs a NEW ARRANGER!!!

That DARREN SHEPPARD is the THE BIGGEST FLOP in ARRANGING HISTORY!!! And he should stay away from trying to COMPOSE.

AMRIT is MORE THAN OVER-RATED!!!

THE INVADERS ARRANGER need some SERIOUS UPGRADES -- if that is poss

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Man, I did not realize that AQUIL ARRINDELL was a BIG TIME SCHOOL SUPERVISOR touring the island daily to DEVELOP PAN IN SCHOOL

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Well, I find that given the MAGNITUDE OF HIS SUCCESS, DUVONE STEWART was not given enough RECOGNITION on THIS FORUM which I think he deserves from his 20,000 FANS on WST!!!

WHEN STEEL TALKS is the WORLD GOVERNING BODY of STEELBAND INFORMATION!!! The most GLOBALLY READ STEELDRUM PLATFORM EN EL MUNDO -- so I was disappointed to see so few accolades and compliments directed at DUVONE STEWART at the HEIGHT OF HIS GREATEST A

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Bugs: After all the talk yuh talk about producing a TRINIDAD MOVIE -- NETFLIX gone an make a deal with a TRINI author to produce a BIG MOVIE and they pass you straight!!!

Bugs: How come NETFLIX did not call a TALENTED MOVIE PRODUCER and SCRIPT WRITER like you?

Trinidad Guardain March 12, 2019

Trini author in deal with Netflix

Net­flix has snapped up the tele­vi­sion rights for the as yet to be pub­lished de­but nov­e

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odw: I have a lot of respect for you the way you STRIVE CONSTANTLY to keep THIS FORUM active!!!

And I admire your OBJECTIVITY and discipline to just stay within the borders of the issues. Plus, you have a broad base of REFERENCE when it comes to making your points.

YOU ARE A TRUE CULTURE LOVER!!!

Claude

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Las’ lap for the Carnival?

Newsday March 12, 2019

The minister elaborated on the “plan to disrupt” the Carnival which amounted to “certain criminal elements” who went to Ariapita Avenue throwing bottles and robbing people and pickpocketing. The music was shut down by the CoP.

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Still one of my favourite PARTY SONGS: ON THE COUNT OF FOUR!!!

I am in a PARTY MOOD/I come out to JAM/when I say a PARTY MOOD/ ah mean JUMP UP and RAISE YUH HAND ... could LYRICS any better than that?

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American broadcaster, former rapper, and songwriter (wikipedia) on Trinidad Carnival.

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Look BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE just run the GREATEST PANORAMA IN HISTORY on $20,000,000 -- ah tell allyuh PANORAMA could run on $18,000,000. Just goes to show how much DIAZ and FORTEAU was TIEFING.

DIAZ and FORTEAU should really be in JAIL for tiefing all dem millions. Beverley just run the GREATEST PANORAMA in HISTORY and she run it on $20,000,000 -- with CASH TO SPARE and put in the bank!!!

DIAZ and FORTEAU were getting MILLIONS above that $2

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Time to review Road March (Says DOCTOR DOLLY]

Newsday March 9, 2019

THE time has come to look differently at how the Road March competition is judged, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said yesterday.

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Pan on the Carnival Laniappe 2019 show

Steelpan activities on video from the Carnival Laniappe 2019 show

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