Pan Trinbago President fights back, plans meeting with membership

Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz says a meeting with the general membership on April 17 will determine the way forward for the organisation.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Diaz said at that meeting he will bring to the membership issue

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GREGORY LINDSAY is my NUMBER ONE CANDIDATE on this new PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE!!!

I hope he hires me as his CAMPAIGN MANAGER!!! I have watched him gain POLITICAL MATURITY over the last 16 months with envious admiration. And I know that he could help to rebuild PAN TRINBAGO and help make it into the WORLD GOVERNING BODY OF PAN not

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Steel Band Insights - The Growth Of The Steel Pan Orchestra

by Priscilla Taylor

The creation and the evolution of the steel pan, is one of the most Innovative inventions of the twentieth century. A true Folk Art, the pan developed on the Island o

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Meet Patricia Jones - Maryland, USA - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Patricia Jones
Maryland, USA

Maryland, USA - “Music embodies my life to the point that it takes precedence to eating, drinking and sleeping. I often hear melodies and musical arrangements in my head...”

She is a music educator, performer, rec

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That is REAL PAN TRINBAGO BACCHANAL today (TT TIME): DIAZ VS FORTEAU!!! I backing FORTEAU and SHEPPARD!!!

I have not been this EXCITED about POLITICS since ELECTION NIGHT Trump and Hillary!!!

Now everybody thinking that I supposed to be backing KEITH DIAZ and THE CIP. But I am just looking at it from a POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE. Since this battle comes down

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Memories of the Esso Steel Band from 1952 - The Royal Gazette

Dear Sir,

Look what I found in the cellar cleaning up after the Norwegian winter: a rusty steel pan!

The story goes like this: in 1952, when I was 12 years old, I was with my father, who was captain on a cargo liner. The ship was 9,000 tonnes deadwe

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Duvonne’s Music Activism: Who Feels it, Knows it.

Duvonne Stewart hears the results. Photo Maria Nunes

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The Windrush Generation helped build our health service. Denying their children access to it is grotesque

by David Lammy

22nd June 1948: Newly arrived Jamaican immigrants on board the ‘Empire Windrush’ at Tilbury. (Photo by Douglas Miller/Keystone/Getty Images)

My parents were part of the Windrush Generation that our Government invited to Britain as cit

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I finally have to agree with MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE: What is Cockroach doing in Fowl business?

All ah dem fellahs is LONG TIME pardners!!! And EXPATS on THIS FORUM expecting CHANGE!!!

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I think that BEVERLEY RAMSEY should come and do a QUESTION and ANSWER session with THE FORUM

Tell us about her PLANS to take the organization to HIGHER HEIGHTS. Ah promise ah will not ask any questions. I will let her BIG BACKERS on THE FORUM lead THE WAY.

Since everybody saying that BEVERLEY going and WIN, I only have ONE SUGGESTION. And th

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Gadsby-Dolly keeping eye on Pan Trinbago

Trinidad Newsday

Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts, Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly. PHOTO SUREASH CHOLAI

IN the wake of Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz shutting down the group’s office until the day after its extraordinary general me

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Limbo Like Me – The Limbo Craze, 1962 – 1963

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West Indians arrive in Britain on board the Empire Windrush – archive

23 June 1948: There was no band, certainly, to greet the immigrants at Tilbury, but it was a welcome, and, for officialdom, a warm welcome

TILBURY, TUESDAY.
What were they thinking, these 492 men from Jamaica and Trinidad, as the Empire Windrush slid

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Crellin community builds steel band for school

by Mary Sincell McEwen A&E Editor

CRELLIN — One week of hard work by Crellin Elementary School students, faculty and parents has resulted in the construction of no fewer than 19 steel drums, now to be used at the school by music students led by teac

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So GREGORY LINDSAY and AQUIL ARRINDELL and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and KEITH DIAZ are all on the same team now fighting FORTEAU?

Would you call that POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY or HYPOCRISY?

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Elderly UK residents of former British colonies risk deportation

Windrush generation

This year marks the 70th anniversary since the Windrush docked at Tilbury [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images]

This year marks the 70th anniversary since the MS Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, bringing with it 492 men and women from the

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No 10 refuses Caribbean request to discuss children of Windrush

The Guardian - UK

British citizens threatened with deportation to countries they left as children and have not returned since

‘I’m here legally, but they’re asking me to prove I’m British’

 No 10 acknowledged that a request had been received from

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Diaz shuts down Pan Trinbago’s office

Diaz shuts down Pan Trinbago’s office

newsday

PAN TRINBAGO president Keith Diaz has shut down operations at the head office in the face of, what he saw as, some dissident members of the central executive “doing as they pleased” without his knowledge.

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FOR IMMEDIATE TRANSMISSION : URGENT to Delegates of PanTrinbago

Sforzata Steel Orchestra, is managed by Trevor Reid, a trustee of the Central Executive of PanTrinbago.....

Messrs. Forteau, Sheppard, Reid, Salvador, & Augustus, are continuing to act in a manner inimical to the directives of the general membership

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Why don't we be honest: Putting PAN MEN to run PAN TRINBAGO at this time is PURE FOLLY!!!

And, for the record, I will say it again: I don't think THE DEBT is such a BIG DEAL.

But we need to bring some PROVEN BUSINESSMEN to come in and run (if not run -- direct) the organization. And, even then, if they do not have a GLOBAL PLAN for the PA

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