Martin Daly
,,,Regarding merit, I have repeatedly pointed out, for example, that our disadvantaged communities comprise many persons of enormous scientific talent who invented and perfected and now maintain the steel drum. Its music now captivates t
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| Position | Band | Song |
| 1 | Republic Bank Angel Harps | V’ghn’s Trouble in the Morning |
| 2 | Rainbow City All Stars | Black Wizard’s Soca Feeling |
| 3 | New Dimension | V’ghn’s Trouble in the Morning |
| 4 | Suzuki Food Fair Pan Wizards | Scholar’s Still Booming |
| 5 | Jouvert |
Reply by Claude Gonzales on
Is two things that will NEVER DIE in TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: STEELBAND and CALYPSO!!!
PEOPLE on THIS FORUM will DIE if they don't get PANORAMA -- for sure!!! But PAN in TRINIDAD (today) is BIGGER than
by Simon Gage
Pepe, who is also from Trinidad, which he left nearly 50 years ago, is the figurehead of Ebony, a band he originated with two friends in a yard in 1969, and which is now the Coldplay, Spice Girls, Beyoncé and One Direction of steel ban
Read more…By Katie Segal -- Soca News
Lyn, who came to the UK in 1956, has always been part of carnival. Her uncle was Sterling Betancourt, one of the Notting Hill Carnival’s steel pan pioneers, her dad a pannist and her mother a carnival queen. Lyn and Carl
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London News Global Views
...The Notting Hill Carnival is rightly regarded as an institution in London. It’s the largest street party in Europe and second largest carnival in the world trailing only Rio de Janeiro. Over the coming Bank Holiday weeken
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London, United Kingdom - Saturday 24th August is the date set for the 2019 UK Panorama Championship being held at Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Park, Kensal Road in London.
Five steel orchestras wil
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by Bruce Eder
Edric Connor is primarily remembered by filmgoers as an actor for his work on screen during the last 15 years of his life, but the Trinidad-born singer also played a pivotal role in the introduction of what is now called worl
Yahoo News
Edmonton's premier steel-pan orchestra has flown in the best of the best to take care of their instruments ahead of the Cariwest festival this weekend.
The TrinCan Steel Orchestra sought out Augustus Peters, a renowned steel-pan maker an
Read more…I calling on GARY to start an investigation into the SIXTY MILLION$$$ that KEITH DIAZ and RICHARD FORTEAU TIEF.
BEVERLEY: Please take the AUDIT REPORT and show it to GARY and THE DPP -- if MARLENE going to jail then DIAZ and FORTEAU should serve some
Read more…When Steel Talks (WST) extends condolences to Kiera Scanterbury, Magnus Scanterbury (Pan Ambassadors), family and friends – on the recent passing – July 28, 2019 - of Jennifer Scanterbury, aunt and sister respectively, and Pan Ambassadors’ band membe
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List of the official annual international days, that are observed or declared by the United Nations.
Source:http://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/interna
Read more…... at least when KEITH DIAZ and RICHARD FORTEAU was in office I could stay BUSY counting how much MONEY dey was TIEFING.
Now with BEVERLEY -- ah have to go the AFRICAN AMERICAN GHETTO: Ain't nothing HAPPENING, DUDE!!!
Come on CECIL!!! You were the N
Read more…Evening Standard
London, England - It all started back in January 1959. Claudia Jones, a Trinidadian human rights activist, organised a Caribbean Carnival at St. Pancras Town Hall in London – a celebration of West Indian culture that was televised b
Read more…Arthur Dash - Trinidad Newsday
I wondered whether TUCO would be able to afford live broadcasts when the private owner calls his price.
Witness what is happening to our calypso tents. Would we ever see the steelband Panorama live again and whether Pa
Read more…Yuko Asada August 5 at 7:19 AM
Here’s a video compilation of Cliff's former students and friends from universities. He was significant not only because of what he did but because of who he was.
I’m thankful to be in Trinidad to spend time with those
Read more…In the middle to late SIXTIES in TRINIDAD, I lived in a GROUND ZERO of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Witnessed it FIRST HAND. So all that crime in TRINIDAD TODAY -- is no surprise to me.
But as if that was NOT ENOUGH, I end up moving to the SAN FRANCISCO BAY
Read more…Please note that I put the word "WHITE" in quotes. Because if you just come from TOBAGO and see SANDRA, you might think that she is WHITE. But if you have lived in FOREIGN for a very long time -- WHITE is a DIFFERENT KINDA TING.
Anyway, according to
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