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Cecil Hinkson: After all the BUILD-UP about "WORLD STEELPAN DAY" I would have expected some kind of report to the PUBLIC about the EVENT ... but instead all I could see is a PICTURE OF BEVERLEY ...

... PLAYING SHE SELF and yuh know once she get involved in ANY PROJECT is CLOAK and DAGGER, TOBAGO SECRECY. So ah doh know if this WORLD PROJECT is going to reach the far corners of the GLOBE if it end up under LOCK and COVER for the PROMOTION of ONE

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Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music
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That eh RIGHT!!! Seven criminal charges against MARLENE for ah lil MILLION$$$ and KEITH DIAZ and FORTEAU tief 60 MILLION DOLLARS from PAN TRINBAGO and dem RUNNING FREE ....

Trinidad Guardian August 11th, 2019

by ABRAHAM DIAZ

"Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald will face as many as sev­en crim­i­nal charges, in­clud­ing mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice, con­spir­a­cy to de­fraud and mon­ey laun­

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Started by Claude Gonzales in News
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TOMORROW (August 11th, 2019) promises to be an HISTORIC DAY for STEELBAND MUSIC as the WORLD STEELPAN DAY is launched. I applaud the efforts of BERTEL GITTENS and SIMEON SANDIFORD!!!

At 11 a.m. tomorrow (August 11th, 2019) the WORLD STEELPAN DAY is going to be LAUNCHED at the PAN TRINBAGO HEADQUARTERS in PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD.

The function would be a simple one. 

Bertel Gittens, as the Chair, would give opening remarks and welc

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Started by Claude Gonzales in Steelband Music
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Bemoaning underachievement

Martin Daly

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,,,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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The passing of Lynette Gabriel

By Katie Segal  -- Soca News

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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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Carnival Round-Up - UK 2019

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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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