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If BARR could release the MUELLER REPORT (HIGHLY REDACTED) -- why can't BEVERLEY release the DOLLY FORENSIC REPORT on CORRUPTION (UNREDACTED)?

SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS disappeared under NINE YEARS of DIAZ and FORTEAU and JOSEPH and SHEPPARD RULE!!!

And a report was handed over to DOLLY and BEVERLEY.

Why can't they release it so that the EXPLOITED PAN PLAYERS can see how the PANORAMA MONEY IS S

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BIG PLANS to ELEVATE PAN in TOBAGO: Proposal discussed to move the NATIONAL MEDIUM BAND Panorama Semi-Finals to Tobago

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Meet Angel Lawrie - Wisconsin, USA

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Wisconsin, USA - “With reference to using the steelpan instrument in working with those challenged by autism spectrum disorder and ADHD: “The steel drum is my number one choice of instrument with workin

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PAN TRINBAGO and BERTEL GITTENS are trying to steal my idea for the development of the PAN TRINBAGO HEADQUARTERS

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bugs: I had a BASKETBALL HALLUCINATION!!! I was watching a BASKETBALL PLAYER and then he suddenly turned into a BALLET DANCER and do a "pirouette" and then turn back into a BASKETBALL PLAYER ...

All in the space of SECONDS!!!

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CARNIVAL IN TRINIDAD 1953!!! The MUSIC was amazing!!! The people danced and JUMPED UP THEN -- NO WINING!!! And no BEADS and BRA!!!

That VIBE from the music ... a treasure trove for a MODERN COMPOSITION!!!

CARNIVAL 1953

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Donald Glover's Guava Island is Gorgeous Tropical Musical -- Yenni Gonzalez Pavon and Dania Rosa Santiago Madrigal - pan players in Guava Island

Esquire Magazine

The Childish Gambino film co-stars Rihanna and features a new "This is America" remix—and it

After mystery-steeped months of speculation, Donald Glover's film Guava Island debuted on Amazon Prime Saturday, where it will stream free

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BIG PAN TRINBAGO MEETING TODAY -- ah hope we get a report on the developments

Almost SIX MONTHS in office and neither THE PRESIDENT nor PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER has UTTERED ONE WORD to the PAN PUBLIC about any developments

They have held over ONE HUNDRED MEETINGS making plans to make the organization FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT bu

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Pan Elders grab Skiffle arranger

ONE of New York’s most respected pan arrangers/composers/performers, Kendall Williams, is set to replace Duvone Stewart as the arranger for medium band champions Pan Elders.

In an interview from New York on Tuesday, Williams, one of the “three amigos

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Despers AD- PAY PER VIEW

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MARCUS ASH: I know that you cannot BAD TALK the JUDGES -- but how dey could PUT a QUALIFIED and TALENTED ARRANGER like LIAM TEAGUE so low down in the SCORING

Marcus: Based on the judges results it just seem like LIAM DOH KNOW NOTHING about PAN MUSIC and CALYPSO and ARRANGING so they have to send him back to SCHOOL to learn about DE TING.

8TH PLACE?????

Maybe is not Liam's fault!!! Maybe the SILVER STARS P

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No end to steelband war

The New Today

With the annual Spicemas festival only four months away, government is making a last minute desperate effort to bring an end to a bitter internal feuding within the Grenada Steelbands Association (GSBA).

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[Is this STEVE TAYLOR, SIDD?] Drums roll on Sunday

Trinidad Express April 13, 2019

Steve Taylor, electronic xylophone player, said the concert is one of the first of its kind that will help to bring an appreciation and awareness of Trinidad and Tobago drum culture. Taylor believes that appreciation f

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Contradictory PAN HISTORY

This first passage comes from a book written by Mark Cozart Riggio (Carnival Culture in Action -- The Trinidad Experience):

OUT OF OIL THERE CAME THE DRUM

In 1945 the voice, still muted, was in the SMALL PANS, Neville Jules:

Ellie and I were in a com

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Cecil Hinkson: You are my PAN GURU (yuh know me eh know nothing about this PAN TING). But what IN THE WORLD would make KENDALL WILLIAMS take that PAN ELDERS JOB?

He is never going to beat DUVONE STEWART in that MEDIUM BAND CATEGORY (not in Trinidad 2020 - 2030). So why risk his reputation and go get fed to LOCAL WOLF JUDGES.

I really don't understand his THINKING!!!

bugs said something once that I will long r

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I am submitting two debateable dates in one POSTING: The first display in the 20 year-old history of THE STEELPAN in a HIGHLY POPULAR GROUP

After its invention in 1947 the STEELPAN gets featured for the FIRST TIME in 1967 in a POPULAR GROUP -- Just a few notes. But featured, nonetheless.

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Meet Krystal George - Trinidad & Tobago

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “‘Pan before Band.’ For me that’s a slogan used after the Panorama competition is over (hahahaha). As panists we all want our bands to win. The good thing however is regardless

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Hueloy - Cultural Promoter - Steelband History

by Doris Green

Global - He is a steelpan music icon, respected, award-wining, and a global ambassador of the steelpan art form. In addition, he is a founding member of the champion Harmonites Steel Orchestra of Trinidad and Tobago. When Steel Talks

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Rag Storm Drama Continues....by Sharmain Baboolal

WTH! Fake News?
Nope, it’s true.
So you thought that the Panorama Drama ended on February 22nd  when Justice Kevin Ramcharan granted an injunction that cleared the way for Exodus to change their tune of choice for the Finals of the 2019 Panorama comp

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I have an UNOFFICIAL OFFER for BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE and PAN TRINBAGO regarding the upcoming COURT CASE

If Beverley Ramsey-Moore can GUARANTEE two consecutive wins for EXODUS in PANORAMA 2020 and 2021 -- we will DROP THE CASE.

Otherwise she will be exposing the entire organization to the risk of BANKRUPTCY. Because suppose the judge award damages in th

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