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Junior Regrello, selfish and self serving or a shining light for pan, the PNM, and the city of San Fernando.

Junior Regrello, selfish and self serving or a shining light for pan, the PNM, and the city of San Fernando.

by Aquil Arrindell

Around the age of 16, I told Mr. Regrello that I was inspired by his management style and I hoped to follow in his footste

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GLENROY and ODW here is the contact information for Aquil Arrindell!!!

aquilite@yahoo.com

868 727-8203

and he has a FACEBOOK PAGE

And here is the sample NOMINATION FORM so that the two of you could get an idea of the process.

Aquil: You know where to find GLENROY and ODW -- right here on THIS FORUM!!!

Let us get this pr

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Cecil Hinkson, get a pen and piece of paper and write down these two words: KENDALL WILLIAMS!!!

... and then put the PIECE OF PAPER in a drawer in your bedroom. And I will tell you when to take it out!!!

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BIG 5 PLAYS ONE FOR PAT

Trinidad Express September 13, 2018

...Five large steel orchestras to honour deceased Lydians director

2018 edition of the International Steelband Foundation’s (ISF) Big 5 steelband concert will honour the legendary Pat Bishop, deceased The Lydians c

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Today's question for the WST posse- don't want to miss anyone, you know who you are....

Here's today's question for pan people.
I have this theory .
First , tell me if you all agree , because if I'm right , it opens a lot of options.

We all know that governments around the world support culture.

I believe that the funding available to

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Despers USA Takes 2018 New York Panorama Championship After Twenty Years - with Champion Arranger Odie Franklin

New York, USA -  As per the song, 2018 has been the Year For Love - and the year that Despers USA Steel Orchestra ended nineteen winless years of participating in the annual New York Panorama, capturing its seventh championship title in the process.

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RICHARD FORTEAU and MICHAEL JOSEPH making a very admirable POLITICAL PLAY ...

If an ELECTION is held before November 1st, FORTEAU and JOSEPH are DEAD MEAT and they have to give up their SEAT OF POWER. So they are going to use every trick in the book to delay ELECTION 2018 with its OCTOBER DEADLINE.

FORTEAU came into the last a

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PAN PEOPLE should demand a NEW PAN HEADQUARTERS as PROJECTS GALORE get ON TRACK ...

Curepe OVERPASS, Dry Docking Facility, New POSGH Central Block, New HDC Projects (176,000 await state housing), new BOATS from Australia, the $441 mil­lion Red House restora­tion project, a "BRIDGE from Toco to Tobago" ... and I am sure that I could

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The legendary Ellie Mannette has passed

When Steel Talks extends condolences to the friends and family of Ellie Mannette.

More on Ellie Mannette

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A message from Mannette Instruments

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Every so often I have to come on THIS FORUM and remind the PAN COMMUNITY that KEITH DIAZ IS THE GREATEST POLITICIAN in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!

I feel that KEITH DIAZ could go right now to the CAROLINA COAST and STOP FLORENCE the same way that he STOP BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE -- and GREGORY LINDSAY. That is HOW GREAT that man is!!!

I see some real HIGH-POWERED men in America recently resign bec

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JJ's Bohemia featuring two rising stars

Staff Report

Scales is considered one of the most innovative steel pan musicians playing right now. He takes an instrument associated with cruise ships and beaches and challenges its boundaries to mimic the role of horns, piano or marimba.

As a st

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Not Into The Clarinet? Trombone Not Your Jam? This Youth Orchestra Is All About Steelpans

By ALLEGRA BATTLE

The steelpan drum, an instrument made popular in the Caribbean, is the catalyst for a new youth music program in Wilkinsburg.

Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, the steelpan was traditionally made from used oil barrels and disc

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GREGORY LINDSAY: When is the ELECTION? All that marching you did and DIAZ and FORTEAU still running things!!!

Gregory Lindsay: You told me that the MEMBERSHIP is the HIGHEST AUTHORITY in PAN TRINBAGO. So how come is more that two weeks after the last fiasco EGM and THE MEMBERSHIP is not screaming for an immediate EGM where the election date could be mandated

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National Philharmonic Orchestra of Trinidad and Tobago- Spirit of a People: J'Ouvert

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COMPOSER/STEEL PANNIST JONATHAN SCALES TALKS NEW FOURCHESTRA ALBUM ‘PILLAR’ & BEING A SELF PROFESSED MUSIC NERD(INTERVIEW)

by Jody Mace glide Magazine

On PILLAR composer and steel pannist Jonathan Scales mines his emotional landscape to create eight songs that are as honest and evocative as they are intricate and complex. With his band, the Jonathan Scales Fourchestra (

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So PAN TRINBAGO is EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS SHORT on PAYMENTS to PANORAMA PAYMENTS for BANDS and PLAYERS!!!

As far as I heard (at least from what BUGS and DOLLY told me) there was going to be a FORENSIC AUDIT into PAN TRINBAGO. (Of course, I knew better.)

And somebody was going to GO TO JAIL. Instead they end up in DOLLY OFFICE signing MOU to get MORE MONE

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Happy Birthday to Master Tuner Bertram “Birch” Kelman - September 9

When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to master Pan Tuner extraordinaire - the great Bertram “Birch” Kelman.  

More on this iconic master craftsman...

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I have reduced my FIELD for PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO down to these two DASHING and DEBONAIRE young men!!!

But as many of you might have suspected -- I tend to lean TO THE RIGHT.

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The KEITH BYER REPORT: Patrick Arnold STOLE 4 million from the HEADQUARTERS FUND and the Current Executive STOLE 8 million from the 2018 payments to BANDS and PLAYERS!!!

I only saw the start of the interview and then I lost the feed. So this report is based on very little input from the entire interview which I plan to see one way or another because these are crucial times as we approach the election of a NEW EXECUTI

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Brooklyn J'Ouvert 2018 Results

J’Ouvert City International kicked off its 2018 celebration by honoring 25 individuals from our community who have worked hard behind the scenes to ensure that our culture is maintained in Central Brooklyn. They were known as “J’Ouvert Cultural Ambas

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