So what happen in THE COURT on Friday? Nobody eh giving no report!!!

Somebody, please give us a report. I need to clear meh mind this morning because ah going to a LATINA FESTIVAL today with 60,000 MEXICANS in attendance. I am sure that 59,000 will be ILLEGAL so if TRUMP send ICE to raid and I end up down in MEXICO wi

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WeBeat to honour Power Stars

Trinidad Newsday

THE St James Community Improvement Committee (St James CIC) has selected Power Stars, formerly known as Blue Stars, as this year’s WeBeat St James Live 18 honoree.

The steelband was established in 1957 as Blue Stars, but ten years la

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AQUIL ARRINDELL: Look ODW just gave you the solution (DISSOLUTION) to all your problems with PAN TRINBAGO

So go back and start another petition hitting the PAN YARDS to get 66.7 percent (round it off to 70 percent just in case a few delegates don't make it or they take a last minute bribe) to attend and vote at a meeting of Special Convention. And don't

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The Battle for 14-17 Park Street, Port of Spain heads back to court...

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GREGORY LINDSAY: Please come and TAKE A BOW before THE FORUM!!!

Gregory: The PRIMARY PURPOSE of PAN is to MAKE MUSIC -- not all this recent politics. So to see you being honoured for a life devoted to PAN MUSIC is historic for THIS FORUM. You being a primary contributor with feet on the ground IN THE MECCA.

So co

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Pan Podium Magazine - the essential magazine for steelpan culture

Issue 25 - Spring 2018

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So TODAY the JUDGE is going to confirm that the last two meetings held by THE CIP and KEITH DIAZ were ILLEGAL. And FORTEAU has a right to stay IN OFFICE until OCTOBER!!!

TENS (if not HUNDREDS) of THOUSANDS of PAN MEN MONEY wasted on legal wranglings. Only to end up right where we started -- elections in OCTOBER.

It is time for ONE SENSIBLE PAN LEADER to emerge and represent THE BEST INTEREST OF PAN MEN. And this repr

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CIP’s position has not changed but the executive position and composition has.

CIP’s position has not changed but the executive position and composition has. By Aquil Arrindell As the conflict continues between the membership of Pan Trinbago and the temporarily reinstalled executive, strategies are being executed mainly betwe

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Culture department takes steel pans into federation’s primary schools

From SKNIS Observer

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – The Department of Culture, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, is holding a series of pan classes in various public and private primary schools throughout the federation.

Nigel Williams, music

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I have a PROPOSAL for THE FORUM: I want us to get together and hire MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE to do a REPRISE of "MAS" by Lord Melody as played by GUINNESS CAVALIERS!!!

Almost 20,000 PAN LOVERS on THIS FORUM and I am sure that a few of us could chip in some SMALL CHANGE and get this project done.

Why did I pick MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE? Well he is one of the FEW ON THE GROUND PAN MEN ARRANGERS who support THE FORUM. And

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Minister also awaits Pan Trinbago resolve

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

....“Pan Trinbago is a private organisation,” Dr Nyan Gadsby Dolly said. “It’s not an arm of the government. The ministry has no locus (authority) to intervene in its present governance situation. This impasse presents an

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Pan Trinbago Apologising For Attack On Attorney

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Get Diaz out -- Pan Trinbago writes minister, NCC

newsday

Melissa Doughty

Culture Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly and Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz at the Queen’s Park Savannah in January.

MEMBERS of Pan Trinbago’s central executive have written to the Ministry of Community Development, Culture

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'It's destroyed my life': Windrush victim recognised as legal citizen after 13 years

UK - The Guardian

In a rare insight into the workings of Lunar House immigration HQ, Hubert Howard recounts how he lost his job and was denied benefits after the Home Office said he was an illegal migrant

For the past 13 years, Hubert Howard has t

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No Shephard dog barked when the membership spoke. Clash on Park Street as photo uses $140,000.00 of pan people’s money to stay in office.

No Shephard dog barked when the membership spoke. Clash on Park Street as photo uses $140,000.00 of pan people’s money to stay in office.

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

Placards hoisted in the air, the executive running for cover as members chanted ‘you all

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I wish that THE CIP would STOP TRYING TO EXPLOIT THIS FORUM!!!!

They contribute nothing!!!! And they CAMPAIGN ONLY on THIS FORUM.

Zero contribution and they say that they have a PETITION signed by 1000 PAN MEN!!!

Bring dem on THE FORUM to contribute, please!!!

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Windrush migrants still sleeping rough one month after minister's promise

Vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still living in destitution on the streets, despite government promises to sort out the crisis that led to thousands of people being wrongly targeted by a government crackdown on illegal immigrants.

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Pan Trinbago Central Executive Accuses their President Keith Diaz of Improprieties

On Friday 18^th May 2018, the same mob that assaulted  Attorney Farid Scoon at the Communication Workers Union hall the day before, invaded the head office of Pan Trinbago with placards and shouting at the top of their voices that the duly elected off

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NCC can’t get involved

Trinidad Newsday - Joan Rampersad

Extempo legend Winston 'Gypsy' Peters

National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters has said the NCC cannot get involved in Pan Trinbago's internal affairs.

He said: “It is unfortunate, but tha

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What THE CIP does not tell us: The FORTEAU SIDE OF THE STORY!!!

Forteau said Diaz wrote him on May 7 asking for a special convention on May 17.

“I wrote Diaz on May 9 indicating to him the time was too short of the court’s decision,” Forteau said.

The executive members contended that the May 17 meeting was not ca

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