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GUYANA election drama continues: [GRANGER] Police bar observers, stakeholders from RO’s Office in violation of court order

Chief Justice  Roxane George will deliver her ruling tomorrow. And that will determine how the Elections Commission shall proceed in declaring the winner of the 2020 ELECTIONS.

The CARICOM Chairperson and Barbadian Prime Minister (Mia Mottley) will l

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Complete Summary of Results of all Conventional Steel Orchestras - 2020 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  At a glance and on a single page, access the comprehensive summary of results for the Small, Medium and Large conventional steel orchestras that participated in their respective categories in the 2020 Panorama. 

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Government To Provide Grant Financing For Extra-Curricular Activities

Antigua News Room

2018 ACB Schools Secondary Panorama Champions Antigua Girl High School

The government announced a new grant initiative to support programs that assist the development of children outside of the regular school curriculum.

Minister

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Ah know allyuh doh like ANDY NARELL too much on THIS FORUM. But I have always thought MARGIE to be one of the best CALYPSOS for PAN EVER by KITCHENER ... so I have to check this ANDY PERFORMANCE OUT!!

Ah bring it over from YOUTUBE without even listening to it ... ANDY is the ONLY MAN I could take that chance with in THIS PAN TING!!!

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Chairman: Despers will always be Laventille band

Desperadoes Steel Orchestra manager Dr Finbar Fletcher awaits the arrival of band members and supporters to start the band's victory motorcade at the Desperadoes panyard on Tragarete Road, Port of Spain on Sunday. - Vidya Thurab

It does not matter

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COVID-19 (Coronavirus) is not the first epidemiological issue that the population of Trinidad and Tobago had to be wary of

National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago is at National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago.

Did you know: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) is not the first epidemiological issue that the population of Trinidad and Tobago has had to be wary of? In 1972, there was

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Local schools take stage at Thursday Steel Band Festival

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GECOM (GUYANA ELECTIONS COMMISSION) officials disappear from foreign Observers, country ...

Once they made the unilateral declaration of the Region Four elections results by the Returning Officer (Clairmont Mingo) -- by shouting from a balcony, he and CEO Keith Lowenfied have disappeared from the scene and cannot be found in TOWN or COUNTRY

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These TWO CALYPSOS are THE ESSENCE OF CALYPSO to ME ... but you have to UNDERSTAND STANDUP COMEDY to really get THE ESSENCE ... which means that you have to be an EXPAT and NOT A LOCAL!!!

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Since this is WOMEN IN PAN MONTH: Who is the BEST WOMAN PAN PLAYER IN THE WORLD?

If you ask any TRINIDADIAN who is the BEST MALE PAN PLAYER in the WORLD they would say BOOGSIE or ROBERT GREENIDGE. Of course I would say ANDY NARELL -- but that is a DIFFERENT STORY.

So among the women PAN PLAYERS -- call some names nah!!! And put u

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When I see somebody playing a PAN at a HIGH LEVEL -- I like to see their MIND IN ONE PLACE ANTICIPATING and the PAN STICKS in ANOTHER PLACE DELIVERING ... I will give THREE EXAMPLES!!!

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Not all Despers members happy to leave Tragarete road

Adrian Glasglow, Captain of Desperadoes, proudly holds up the bands Panorama Large Bands victory trophy, on the lead truck of a motorcade at Victory Lap with the Champions of Panorama 2020 hosted by Desperadoes Steelband Orchestra, Laventille Road,

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NAGICO, DMF partner to take steel pan music beyond classroom

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LADIES and GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY -- I finally have EVIDENCE of a REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE of a STEELBAND PLAYING A CALYPSO IN CALYPSO ...

... Even so I still consider it CALYPSO LITE!!! I like a little bit more BRADAM BRAM (what I will call the SPIRIT OF CARNIVAL -- especially when we are talking about CARNIVAL SATURDAY NIGHT)!!! But I will submit it as a DECENT EXAMPLE.

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Pan as icon: preserving, claiming, marketing (Part I)

By Dorbrene O’Marde

Before adding my contributions to this discussion on ‘Pan as Icon – preserving, claiming, marketing,’ let me be quick to acknowledge my limitations on this subject and give a view as to ‘where I am coming from.’

I am not a panman/

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Panorama Conductors!!! Do they help the Judges score the band, For I have notice in the last decade a large band that never uses a Conductor has won the most Panorama.

Does Conducting a band in Panorama increases the performance of the band by providing leadership and guidance as to what is happening with the arrangement of the music( low and loud parts, crescendos and decrescendos, tenor solos when the middle and

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Spring Choir Concert: St. Francis in the Americas

Potts and Pan Steelband

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After all the HYPE and PROPAGANDA about the MEDIUM BAND FINALS IN TOBAGO -- this is the ONLY REPORT I could find across the LOCAL MEDIA ...

"Pan Trin­ba­go's de­ci­sion to move the Na­tion­al Panora­ma medi­um band fi­nal to To­ba­go, while note­wor­thy, al­so seemed not well thought out, es­pe­cial­ly giv­en the is­sues bands faced with trans­porta­tion to and from To­ba­go and the fact

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AH NEVER THOUGHT ah woulda see ALEXICAH mashing up all dem PANORAMA ARRANGAH -- this PANORAMA TING REAL NICE ... NICE NICE NICE!!!

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A Royalty Riddle

By Terry Joseph
April 13, 2004

WHILE some members of the Copyright Organisation (COTT) are developing anxieties over what they described as "dwindling royalties", one of their colleagues took home $60,000 last year – by far the largest payout to a si

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