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My best song for CARNIVAL 2019 was "IRON LOVE" by NAILAH ... some really great melodic lines!!!

What gave the song even more subliminal appeal to me was what I DID NOT HEAR in the song but projected in my own mind. There are many places in the song where I could imagine NAILAH hitting some pore-raising HIGH NOTES adding some more excitement a

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Pan made us more focused, disciplined

Newsday

Naps Combined celebrates Junior Panorama victory:

San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello, centre, and, to his right, Naparima Girls principal Carolyn Bally Gosine with members and supporters of the Naparima Combined Steel Orchestra, celebrate the

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Let Tobago host a Panorama final

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Pan Trinbago boss suggests splitting medium, large bands

Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore (above, right) with young players of Edinburgh 500 steel ensemble during the qualifying round of single pan judging on Ja

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Reflections on pan and its potential

Newsday

Shell Invaders performs Hookin Meh at the National Panorama finals at the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain. PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB

DENNISE DEMMING

In traditional management we talk about PESOS as an approach for training people to master

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Suddenly everybody have ah plan for CARNIVAL: MSJ PRO wants Carnival diversified; Build theme park at Chacachacare

Guardian March 11, 2019

Fer­nan­dez said every year, the gov­ern­ment gives con­tracts for tents and in­fra­struc­ture to the tune of tens of mil­lions of dol­lars.

“Why not buy this in­fra­struc­ture and have it ready to use for Car­ni­val,” he adde

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Gypsy: Tobago will profit from own Carnival

National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Winston "Gypsy" Peters holds firm to his belief that a Tobago Carnival must be established as a permanent feature of the island's cultural identity.

"The economics of Carnival will tell you that if you have

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GOAT RACE & BLUE FOOD FESTIVAL for Trinidad.

Dear Ms. Beverley Ramsey- Moore,

I hope that all is well in Black Rock. I want to congratulate you on your ability to, well for want of a better term, be a comic (jokey), which I never knew you were, someone "who does" TALK PLENTY SHIT, an attribute

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Two of the most HIGHLY ACCLAIMED CALYPSOS in the history of the ART FORM -- and I so RESENT these TWO SONGS!!!

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Panorama 2019 captured on Digital Collectibles

Global - This year’s scintillating steelbands’ performances at the National Panorama Medium & Large Conventional Finals are captured “live” on DVD, CD and Flash Drives.

The 2019 release is a collaborative production of Pan Trinbago Inc and WACK. It

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‘Everything sounds the same’

THE PAN and steelbands have evolved greatly since its invention some time in the 1930s, and today its music is one of the sounds most identifiable with the Caribbean.

But as Martin Albino, Trinidad All Stars veteran, reminisced along with fellow vet

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Panorama shake-up

Trinidad Express

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Panorama 2019; would players be paid? Changing of the guards as old arrangers struggle; Dr. Mia Gormandy exceptional voice for commentary.

Panorama 2019; would players be paid? Changing of the guards as old arrangers struggle; Dr. Mia Gormandy exceptional voice for commentary.

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

Commentary

Dr. Mia Gormandy stood out as the most delightful aspect of the Panorama for

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Panorama Prize Distribution - Pan Trinbago

National Panorama winners in all categories received their prizes (cheques) Saturday 09 March, 2019 at the NCC VIP Lounge, Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, at 2:30 pm

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Just The Facts: The Difference Between Large & Medium Steelband Categories - That ‘Share’ Button

Venture Capitalists + Steelband Categories - NOT!

Global - Just the facts - the difference between Large and Medium National Panorama Finals where it is key: in the minds and hearts of the People, the all-round supporters of the art form. And what d

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A Ministry of Carnival?

FOR THEIR ambitious vision, K2K Alliance and Partners were justly rewarded with the Band of the Year title. Such was the undeniable power of their art that it mattered not that Through Stained Glass Windows was a medium band. Theirs was a mas that re

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FAMALAY WINS ROAD MARCH

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BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE boasting about how MUCH MONEY she make in the SEMIS AND FINALS -- well then she should PAY THE PAN PLAYERS ...

Even when KEITH DIAZ and FORTEAU was TIEFING MILLIONS and SCALPING half the PANORAMA tickets and giving out crooked contracts and paying millions to car rental companies (which got kicked back to them) -- THEY STILL MANAGE TO PAY THE PAN PLAYERS.

Tod

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Metro meets pan paradise

theconcirdian - 

When Etang first began playing Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument at Coronation Elementary School at the age of 9, it was far from a passion.

“A lot of my friends started playing pan before me,” said Etang, who also goes by

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Pannists to vote on pan song switch

Members of Exodus Steel Orchestra enjoy themselves as they play Kees Diefenthaller's Savannah Grass in the large band Panorama finals in Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain on Carnival Saturday. PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB

Pan Trinbago president Beverly

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CALYPSO and SOCIETY: Social Welfare Division commences transformation journey

LoopTTnews March 9th, 2017

The Social Welfare Division of the Social Development and Family Services Ministry began the first step in its twelve-month journey to divisional transformation at an Insights and Discoveries workshop facilitated by the Min

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