GYPSY don't know what to do again!!! Like allyuh want to drive him insane!!! What's the formula for him to win some fans down in Port-of-Spain? And on THE FORUM!!!

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So where is THE CIP: Gregory Lindsay and Aquil Arrindell? Don't tell me DIAZ and FORTEAU break dem fellahs will!!!

Aquil and Gregory: Stay on the BALL!!! Come up with a little agenda and organize a meeting with THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL CARNIVAL COMMISSION. And make sure the door remains open when you leave.

GYPSY has direct access to ROWLEY and DOLLY.

GREGORY

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Abdulah: Dissolved EDAB was working on pan plan, Carnival assessment

Trinidad Newsday

David Abdulah, PHOTO BY LINCOLN HOLDER

Plans for the steel band industry and an economic impact assessment of Carnival were among the initiatives by the recently dissolved Economic Development Advisory Board (EDAB), reported forme

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Len "Boogsie" Sharpe -- Live and Unplugged

Len "Boogsie" Sharpe -- Live and Unplugged

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Prof Teague rises

Trinidad Newsday Liam Teague

YVONNE WEBB

PAN virtuoso Liam Teague continues to rise in musical academia.

The accomplished arranger is now professor of presidential research, scholarship and artistry at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in the Unite

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Aquil Arrindell MAMAGUYING big men!!!

Look at this statement from (and about) Keith Diaz on or about April 11th!!!

Diaz, who claimed he has no intentions of seeking re-election, said he suggested the October election date be moved to May to allow the new executive time to adequately prep

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DEM PAN TRINBAGO REGIONAL HEADS REAL GOOD!!! They let THE CIP do all the HEAVY LIFTING and then they GOING and GRAB THE POT OF GOLD!!!

Aquil and Gregory REAL NEW to this GAME OF POLITICS. Oh!!! I FORGOT!!! THEY ARE NOT INTO POLITICS!!!

And please note that COLLEGE BOY hinted that the WHOLE COUP may NOT BE LEGAL. So, again, we might be looking at THREE YEARS OF LITIGATION.

Ah going a

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PanTrinbago interim body seeks early election (Ah tell allyuh this was a Gerard Mendez Coup)

"Gerard Mendez, a member of the interim caretaker committee set up to take PanTrinbago forward, says the first item on the agenda is to bring the election date to elect a new executive forward."

Same old BACKWARD CREW shuffling the EXECUTIVE DECK!!!

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Pan Trinbago executive voted out

Pan Trinbago executive voted out

AT the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of Pan Trinbago at CWU headquarters on Tuesday, the membership voted out the central executive committee and installed a caretaker committee.

The in

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merrytonestothebone: Bertel Gittens leave you out. Like you is ah COCKROACH or something LESS!!!

How much LOCALS ever come on THE FORUM and participate? Let me REASK: How much LOCALS who are active in STEELBAND PRODUCTION like you ever come on the forum and deal with THE ISSUES?

Ah tell yuh: This thing getting CURIOUSER and CURIOSER!!!

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Meet Nakita Wilfred - Barbados - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Nakita Wilfred
Barbados

Barbados, W.I. - “Whenever I play pan, I would drift to this place of total bliss where she [my mother] resides and I can never help but to smile uncontrollably and feel at peace. Onlookers always inquire about my abili

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Pan Trinbago Executive Dissolved, Caretaker Committee Installed

This comes as a Caretaker Committee was installed following an Emergency Motion and Meeting on Tuesday.

Apart from dissolving the Executive, it was voted with 130 votes in favour and one against that the former President, Treasurer and one other of

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PanTrinbago coup - Forteau eyes legal challenge to bands’ vote

Trinidad Guardian

A decision by a large group of PanTrinbago members to remove the organisation’s central executive is now set to be the subject of a legal challenge.

During a special meeting at the CWU Hall in Port-of-Spain on Tuesday evening, 130 m

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REPORT from THE BIG MEETING by GREGORY LINDSAY

Central Executive committee is voted out....A caretaker committee has been been installed comprising of Chairmen and one other official from each Regional Executive, the former President, the former Treasurer and 2 other persons to be appointed by t

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WHEN STEEL TALKS ran this story before!!! But what struck me about it was THE PASSION FOR PAN!!!

As everybody on this FORUM knows, I am not INTO THE PAN MUSIC TING!!! But over the years I have OBSERVED the PASSION that so many PAN LOVERS have for the instrument. And it just so happens that I LOVE people who have REAL PASSION for ANYTHING.

So whe

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How come AQUIL ARRINDELL is the ONLY CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT who is taking HEAT on THIS FORUM? What about the LEADING CANDIDATE from TOBAGO?

We have to wait another 28 days for another meeting to set an election date. Then the candidates should be given at least 60 DAYS to CAMPAIGN. That puts us in JULY!!! Any kind of snafu or delay and we are looking at OCTOBER.

Don't even mention the th

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END OF A ERA...

Members of WST did kept Mr Diaz and the executive of Pan Trinbago on blast for the last couple of years, since before the last election with the New Visionaries, I guess we could celebrate with rest of the Pan Movement that we have come to the end of

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AQUIL ARRINDELL: How yuh so SILENT NOW?

We support you for 16 months on this forum (I could have gone out and made TWO BABIES during that period) and now that the FIRE IS BLAZING you are SILENT on the FORUM.

If you want to be THE NEXT PRESIDENT you had better STATE YOUR CASE. Because GERAR

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Ten Actions Steelbands May Take To Escape The Steelband Quagmire Of 2017: -- George D Goddard

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Pan Trinbago executive voted out

Trinidad Newsday --  Joan Rampersad

AT the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of Pan Trinbago at CWU headquarters on Tuesday, the membership voted out the central executive committee and installed a caretaker committee.

The interim committee compris

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