Herb Alpert Covers Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' In Response to Our Times - with Pan included

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by Gary Graff

Herb Alpert wants it known that his new instrumental version of Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" and its video -- premiering exclusively below --

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Live from the UK!

Steelpan players in Oxford Street today raising money for Steel Pan Trust

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Women In Pan -- C News - Israel McLeod

Trinidad & Tobago

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Well KEITH DIAZ (THE RIGHT HONOURABLE KEITH DIAZ) just REDEFINED the word RESIGN!!! What a LAUGH!!!

Technically, there is NO STANDING PRESIDENT of PAN TRINBAGO because some people believe that the EXECUTIVE has been dissolved (that excludes FORTEAU and SHEPPARD and SERRETTE). But those IN THE KNOW -- they KNOW that KEITH DIAZ is still calling ALL T

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PAN TRINBAGO is a SILLY NAME, anyway!!! So DR. DOLLY should declare bankruptcy and dissolve the corporation. Rewrite the constitution and form a NEW CORPORATION with a more meaningful name!!!

THE INTERNATIONAL STEELBAND FOUNDATION (now defunct) -- that is a STRONG and meaningful name!!! So they could have a GLOBAL CONTEST to come up with a good name for the NEW CORPORATION and give the winner a FIRST RATE TENOR PAN. The name should expres

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NO SURPRISE: Pan Trinbago's Central Executive takes Keith Diaz to court

In a release signed by Secretary Richard Forteau, the Executive said it is taking legal action against Diaz, Gerald Mendez, the North Regional Chairman and Marie Toby the Tobago Regional Chairman f

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ALL EYES ARE ON THE ARRANGER TODAY...

They have to produce or face being replaced, we have seen this happen to top arrangers right before our eyes.

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Well FORTEAU and SHEPPARD and BYRON SERRETTE really get me DEPRESSED this morning when ah see dey file that COURT CASE against THE RIGHT HONOURABLE KEITH DIAZ!!!

That translates to ZERO PAN PROGRESS for the NEXT THREE YEARS. Now, CECIL HINKSON likes to make a distinction between STEELBANDS and STEELPANS (I hate that word "STEELPAN" -- but that is a different story); and I like to make a distinction between th

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Windrush Fallout - Former British High Commissioner Says Son Was Denied UK Passport Because He Was Born In T&T

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First * First in Pan - Aruba

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Possible Ending for the Movie -- The PT Story

In this possible ending, The Aquil and the Dolly make it out alive. D'Photo, D'Sheppard, College Boy and Rolly Polly - well let's just say they experienced some serious difficulties.  And it does end up being a love story as Merrytones recommended. T

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Ah know that this is a PAN FORUM!!! BUT I LOVE CALYPSO!!! Especially CALYPSO LYRICS!!!

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PAN in DE ROAD on THE GROUND in APRIL in THE MECCA!!!

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COLIN LUCAS BACK IN: Lucas confirmed as acting NCC CEO

FORMER National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Colin Lucas has been confirmed as acting CEO of the NCC.

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Cecil Hinkson: This Bomb Tune is especially for you to ease the Tension,Scandal, Corruption in Pantrinbago and the crime wave in the Mecca of Pan.

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The CIP has betrayed the pan movement; Diaz is still in charge because a deal was struck.

The CIP has betrayed the pan movement; Diaz is still in charge because a deal was struck.

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

I must admit that after all the celebration and exuberance, many of us who head the resistance were still not on solid ground as to what

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GREGORY LINDSAY: We have had NO REPORTS from you in OVER A WEEK!!!

Please, brother, come and give us some UPDATES. I looked in my CRYSTAL BALL and I saw some SERIOUS COLLUSION going on -- making TRUMP and RUSSIA seem like an amateur operation.

So please come and give us some accurate FOUR ONE ONE!!!

Most of all I wa

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Diaz welcomes ‘Gypsy’

Trinidad Newsday

PAN Trinbago President Keith Diaz has welcomed the recent appointment of former culture minister and calypsonian Winston “Gypsy” Peters as National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman.

“Personally speaking, I have no problem with it.

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A GOOD (VERY INSIGHTFUL) INTERVIEW WITH COLIN LUCAS: Colin Lucas on Carnival Today!!!

Colin Lucas has a long history with Carnival. Until his appointment to chairman of the National Carnival Commission (NCC) of Trinidad and Tobago in November 2017, people knew him for his music, particularly one massively popular hit in 1991: “Dollar

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Somebody: Please STEP IN and explain to AQUIL ARRINDELL how treacherous this ELECTION CAMPAIGN really is!!!

Me and RUSSELL PROVIDENCE try to EXPLAIN all kinda ting to the boy -- but like BIG BAMBOO STICK break up in he ear because when we talk he just would not hear. Everywhere I look I am only seeing SHARKS swimming around the boy but he OBLIVIOUS!!!

He h

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