Well, STARLIFT need ah NEW ARRANGER!!! And EXODUS need ah NEW ARRANGER ... what the hell, leh meh go down THE LIST!!!

BIRDSONG needs a NEW ARRANGER!!!

That DARREN SHEPPARD is the THE BIGGEST FLOP in ARRANGING HISTORY!!! And he should stay away from trying to COMPOSE.

AMRIT is MORE THAN OVER-RATED!!!

THE INVADERS ARRANGER need some SERIOUS UPGRADES -- if that is poss

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Meet Justina Ploeger - Germany - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Justina Ploeger
Germany

Dortmund, Germany - “I’m lucky to be born in a city, which can by now be called, “The steel pan stronghold of Germany.” The first steel pan association in Dortmund was founded in 1995 and a pan-round-the-neck band was pa

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Meet Nakiya Athina de Freitas - Antigua - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Nakiya Athina de Freitas

Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - “I would tell any young female panist to go for it. If it’s something you love and enjoy, don’t let anything deter you from that passion. You will face many ups and downs and you will feel like

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Man, I did not realize that AQUIL ARRINDELL was a BIG TIME SCHOOL SUPERVISOR touring the island daily to DEVELOP PAN IN SCHOOL

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Well, I find that given the MAGNITUDE OF HIS SUCCESS, DUVONE STEWART was not given enough RECOGNITION on THIS FORUM which I think he deserves from his 20,000 FANS on WST!!!

WHEN STEEL TALKS is the WORLD GOVERNING BODY of STEELBAND INFORMATION!!! The most GLOBALLY READ STEELDRUM PLATFORM EN EL MUNDO -- so I was disappointed to see so few accolades and compliments directed at DUVONE STEWART at the HEIGHT OF HIS GREATEST A

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Louise McIntosh - Trinidad & Tobago - WST Spotlight

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “She was a former student of the great music phenom, Winifred Atwell. And as the founder of and an educator at the Pan Pipers Music School, she provided the entree point and s

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Bugs: After all the talk yuh talk about producing a TRINIDAD MOVIE -- NETFLIX gone an make a deal with a TRINI author to produce a BIG MOVIE and they pass you straight!!!

Bugs: How come NETFLIX did not call a TALENTED MOVIE PRODUCER and SCRIPT WRITER like you?

Trinidad Guardain March 12, 2019

Trini author in deal with Netflix

Net­flix has snapped up the tele­vi­sion rights for the as yet to be pub­lished de­but nov­e

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odw: I have a lot of respect for you the way you STRIVE CONSTANTLY to keep THIS FORUM active!!!

And I admire your OBJECTIVITY and discipline to just stay within the borders of the issues. Plus, you have a broad base of REFERENCE when it comes to making your points.

YOU ARE A TRUE CULTURE LOVER!!!

Claude

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Las’ lap for the Carnival?

Newsday March 12, 2019

The minister elaborated on the “plan to disrupt” the Carnival which amounted to “certain criminal elements” who went to Ariapita Avenue throwing bottles and robbing people and pickpocketing. The music was shut down by the CoP.

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Still one of my favourite PARTY SONGS: ON THE COUNT OF FOUR!!!

I am in a PARTY MOOD/I come out to JAM/when I say a PARTY MOOD/ ah mean JUMP UP and RAISE YUH HAND ... could LYRICS any better than that?

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American broadcaster, former rapper, and songwriter (wikipedia) on Trinidad Carnival.

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Look BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE just run the GREATEST PANORAMA IN HISTORY on $20,000,000 -- ah tell allyuh PANORAMA could run on $18,000,000. Just goes to show how much DIAZ and FORTEAU was TIEFING.

DIAZ and FORTEAU should really be in JAIL for tiefing all dem millions. Beverley just run the GREATEST PANORAMA in HISTORY and she run it on $20,000,000 -- with CASH TO SPARE and put in the bank!!!

DIAZ and FORTEAU were getting MILLIONS above that $2

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Time to review Road March (Says DOCTOR DOLLY]

Newsday March 9, 2019

THE time has come to look differently at how the Road March competition is judged, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said yesterday.

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Pan on the Carnival Laniappe 2019 show

Steelpan activities on video from the Carnival Laniappe 2019 show

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My best song for CARNIVAL 2019 was "IRON LOVE" by NAILAH ... some really great melodic lines!!!

What gave the song even more subliminal appeal to me was what I DID NOT HEAR in the song but projected in my own mind. There are many places in the song where I could imagine NAILAH hitting some pore-raising HIGH NOTES adding some more excitement a

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Pan made us more focused, disciplined

Newsday

Naps Combined celebrates Junior Panorama victory:

San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello, centre, and, to his right, Naparima Girls principal Carolyn Bally Gosine with members and supporters of the Naparima Combined Steel Orchestra, celebrate the

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Let Tobago host a Panorama final

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Pan Trinbago boss suggests splitting medium, large bands

Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore (above, right) with young players of Edinburgh 500 steel ensemble during the qualifying round of single pan judging on Ja

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Reflections on pan and its potential

Newsday

Shell Invaders performs Hookin Meh at the National Panorama finals at the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain. PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB

DENNISE DEMMING

In traditional management we talk about PESOS as an approach for training people to master

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Suddenly everybody have ah plan for CARNIVAL: MSJ PRO wants Carnival diversified; Build theme park at Chacachacare

Guardian March 11, 2019

Fer­nan­dez said every year, the gov­ern­ment gives con­tracts for tents and in­fra­struc­ture to the tune of tens of mil­lions of dol­lars.

“Why not buy this in­fra­struc­ture and have it ready to use for Car­ni­val,” he adde

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Diaz queries funding for transport of Tobago bands for Panorama

Pan Trinbago’s president Keith Diaz is unhappy with the allocation for pan from the National Carnival Commission., and is particularly concerned about the funding to get Tobago steelbands to Trinidad for Panorama 2018.

NCC chairman Colin Lucas announ

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