TRINIDAD could be in BIG CORONA DANGER ... ah hoping the HOT SUN SAVE THEM!!!

So far the MINISTRY has tested about 688 people in the past month -- 97 have come up positive with 6 DEATHS.

But there are about 2,000 who have been exposed to the VIRUS -- that they KNOW ABOUT. Just imagine what THEY DO NOT KNOW ABOUT from COMMUNITY

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‘Lovely Day’ by Bill Withers - The Knights & Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra featuring André White

The Knights and Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra

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Allyuh know that BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE promised not to TAKE NO TAX from the APPEARANCE FEES FOR BANDS ... and SHE STILL TAKE IT!!!

THE PLAYERS eh GETTING A PENNY from the APPEARANCE FEES -- and yet BEVERLEY went back on she word and TAX THE STEELBANDS like she is a GOVERNMENT or something ... when that TAX MONEY could have gone to pay a COUPLE PLAYERS!!!

I have to quote SHADOW H

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Earl Richards: SUPPOSIN'!!! Now ah ONLY SUPPOSIN!!! Suppose BEVERLEY was serious about SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION and THE PAN WORLD -- don't you think that she would have organized a HELPING HAND ...

...DURING THIS PANDEMIC?

Earl: Do you know that WACK and KENNY PHILLIPS have a form on their website where you can DONATE CASH to WACK directly? And yuh know that KENNY PHILLIPS and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE is best FRIENDS and BUSINESS PARTNERS in the w

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GREGORY LINDSAY: Where is YOUR LEADER -- BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE? She is SHOCKINGLY SILENT after promising SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION and when the opportunity arrives she is PARTYING with THE NCC EXECUTIVES

By now everybody forget that BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE promised to be THE MINISTER OF HEALTH and the MINISTER OF TOURISM and the MINISTER of EDUCATION and THE MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT all wrapped up in her role of PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO overseei

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Martin “Dougie” Douglas Remembered by Garvin Blake

Martin “Dougie” Douglas Remembered

by Garvin Blake

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Pan Trinbago Mourns the Loss of Two Stalwarts

The steelpan fraternity is once again plunged into mourning with the passing of two (2) stalwarts, Martin Douglas and  Michael “Scobie” Joseph.

Pan Trinbago President, Executive and members extend condolences to their immediate families, their extend

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Ah have ah REAL CONCUSSION: I have to APOLOGIZE to BUGS -- he was RIGHT and I was WRONG on the EXPONENTIATION of the CORONA VIRUS!!!

Bugs: How much OUR FATHERS and HAIL MARYS yuh want meh to say?

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Ingrid Blackwood-Belle: Yuh on LOCKDOWN in LONDON ... so come and make AH LIME with we TOMORROW!!!

Ingrid: YUH UNDER BORIS LOCKDOWN ... come and make ah lime tomorrow nah!!! Come leh we LIME as the PEOPLE SAY!!! Earl Richards like to MIND WE BUSINESS -- but yuh know that he WRONG AGAIN!!!

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Attorney Israel Khan to PM: Slap SoE on Trinidad and Tobago

Newsday April 1, 2020

“If you want to ‘slap down the people’ then slap the SoE on them, it does seem that the country’s waiting on that hard clout. But you keep playing the reluctant godfather.”

Khan said he along with his staff at his law chambers h

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Watch Interview -- Meet Martin Douglas - Manager, Executive, Panist, Educator CrossFire Steel Orchestra - UpClose!

A When Steel Talks Exclusive

The history of Pan is replete with large, colorful figures whose names and deeds will be entwined with steelband music art form forever.  Martin "Dougie" Douglas was one such character.

Whether you were a child or an adu

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A Pandemic Expert Tells Us Why She Was So Wrong About Coronavirus

'I just assumed that the US system would be a little bit better...and I just couldn't have been more wrong.'

by Matthew Gault

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Martin “Dougie” Douglas - president of CrossFire Steel Orchestra has passed

When Steel Talks extends our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Martin Douglas. He was the president of New York's CrossFire Steel Orchestra. In addition he was chairman of the United States Steelband Association.

Pan was Dougie's pass

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STEELPAN PLAYER – VICTIM of COVID-19

Everybody’s Magazine

New York, USA - The steelband fraternity in Brooklyn, NY is mourning the passing of Hansel Leon, a victim of COVID-19. “Hanny” as he was popularly called promoted steelpan music in the U.S. for almost four decades. He was once m

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ADDRESS TO THE NATION TONIGHT (By the PRIME MINISTER) on CNC3 at 7:30 PM tonight ...

... as you ALL KNOW, people does send me ALL KINDA TING to post. So I am making THIS POST and I want to make it QUITE CLEAR that these are NOT MY OPINIONS. This is just A DUTY that I am performing -- but THE MOTHER LAND is my FIRST LOVE so I have to

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Farewell to a legend

The Daily Observer

by Gemma Handy

It may not have been the send-off they envisaged but friends, family and the pan fraternity turned out on Thursday to bid farewell to late steelpan legend Eustace ‘Manning’ Henry who died earlier this month.

Attend

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When Steel Talks extends Birthday greetings to pan pioneer Sterling Betancourt.

When Steel Talks extends Birthday greetings to pan pioneer Sterling Betancourt.

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Thirty years after death, Rudolph Charles remains... The Baddest Desperado

by Dalton Narine

Global - Thirty years ago today, Laventille’s Rudolph Charles shuffled off this mortal coil and went out in style - a glam funeral service, his soul encased in the Chariot pans he invented and three religions vying for meager p

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COVID-19 taking a toll on New York Steelband neighborhoods

New York City percent of  patients testing postive for COVID-19

Percent of patients testing positive for COVID-19 by United Hospital Fund Neighborhood in New York City

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Hansel “Hanny” Leon Remembered - by Garvin Blake

by Garvin Blake

New York, USA - When Hansel “Hanny” Leon passed on March 25, 2020, Brooklyn lost a beat. He was the most tireless ironman I have ever heard. Hanny played his iron, a piece of metal that’s central to Trinidad’s music, anywhere, every

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