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Carnival returns to Antigua & Barbuda in 2022, but ‘super-spreader’ events axed from the lineup

Observer

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Pan giants Len "Boogsie" Sharpe and Anthony Williams

 

Photo by Garvin Blake

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• Meet Anthony Williams - Master Steelpan Innovator and Leader - UpClose!

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Steelpan icon Jim "Jimi" Phillips designs KFC Spicy Steel Bucket

Iconic steelpan musician and innovator Jim "Jimi" Phillips has worked together with KFC to create signature steelpans with a spicy twist.

In a statement, franchise holder Prestige Holdings Limited said the project was a collaboration designed to ig

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Ah hear that PAN MEN paying a fee for FALSE VACCINATION CARDS so that they could PLAY IN THE PANORAMA ... and a Nurse among 3 charged in vaxx card scam

Now BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE said that she could not hold an election because she did not want to EXPOSE PAN DELEGATES TO COVID.

But now she is HOLDING A PANORAMA and letting UNVACCINATED PAN PLAYERS (with bogus vaccination cards) enter to spread THE CO

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Remembering Asami Nagakiya - The Death of a Panist

by WST

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Wear Yuh Mask if yuh want to Play ah Mas!

A “Taste of Carnival'' activity for the 2022 season has been given a Green Light by our Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts, Sen. Randall Mitchell, but of course, not in the same format as it would have been pre-pandemic.
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A medley of pan and calls for election play out in Arima

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Some Carnival stakeholders have gone into full gear preparing for A

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Pan Trinbago gets just $4m for Carnival but shows will go on [very little for the PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE TO STEAL]

Newsday Feb 10, 2022

"Asked about the views expressed about a Taste of Carnival, Ramsey-Moore said she was disappointed about how people came down on the amount of money that NCC chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters had to work with.

She said he might not

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Taste of Carnival – a cultural URP? [Run some bread for THE PNM VOTERS?]

Newsday Feb 10, 2022

"MUCH of this ill-defined 'taste of carnival' has the distinct flavour of a cultural URP – run some money and let some people like deyself.

In that respect, it truly is just a taste of Carnival, which, under normal circumstances

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Who else is counting down to our first Panorama in the savannah in two years?!

Carib Beer

This Sweet steel pan version of Can you feel it is just what we need to bring the riddim and the vibes

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Eighty-plus steelbands have registered for “A Taste of Carnival 2022”

Eighty-plus steelbands have registered for Pan Trinbago’s events in the “A Taste of Carnival 2022”.

The bands, 16 Large, 23 Medium, 23 Small and 27 Single Pan Bands will audition for places in the two events hosted by the pan body from this weekend.

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Mas man Fareid Carvalho stands up for a Taste of Carnival

Newsday - Mellissa Doughty

Masman Fareid Carvalho works on the headpiece of his 2022 presentation at his mas camp on Alfredo Street in Woodbrook on February 3. Carvalho has competed for 21 years in the Carnival King competition at the Queen's Park

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Where in the world is When Steel Talks?

Many of the legendary early influencers and participants in the development of the steelpan movement have their navel strings directly and/or indirectly buried in this island. From Desperadoes to Fonclaire - Winston "Spree" Simon to Allan Gervais amo

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When Steel Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to educator, panist and performing artist Claudie Donne

Happy Birthday to Claudie Donne

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Haiti cancels Carnival

SOURCE: Jamaica Observer – The Haitian government has cancelled Carnival this year due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has killed 804 people and infected 29, 715 others over two years.

In a statement, the country’s Ministry of Cu

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When Steel Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to entrepreneur, organizer and veteran panist Aliandre C. Maraj

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A message to: GERARD MENDEZ, DANE GULSTON, CARLAN HAREWOOD, AQUIL ARRINDELL, GREGORY LINDSAY, ROBERT HERNANDEZ, RUSSELL PROVIDENCE, CECIL HINKSON & all PAN LOVERS AROUND THE WORLD ...

... after all the decades i spend putting TIME and TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS into SUPPORTING PAN in FOREIGN and LOCAL (up to today) for THE PROGRESS OF THE INSTRUMENT ... how could YOU ALL  let me down at this CRUCIAL TIME and let a SELF-SERVING P

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Well EVERYBODY LINING UP to share in that GIMME GIMME $4 MILLION (minus a few thousands) PANORAMA STAKE. And all the TOP ARRANGERS who was BAD TALKING BEVERLEY ... suddenly LINE UP LINE UP ...

... FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE begging for their SUPPER.

PAN PEOPLE -- HIGH OR LOW (BIG NAME ARRANGERS and SMALL) -- will always amount to NOTHING BUT HAND OUT MONGERERS ... and PAN WILL NEVER PROGRESS in TRINIDAD with PAN LEECHES LIKE THESE!!!

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Taste of Carnival 2022 events will operate at a maximum of 50% capacity, with the Grand Stand being outfitted to comfortably host 1200 patrons and the North Park, 1100 patrons.

... and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE says that she cannot convene 300 delegates IN THE SAVANNAH.

TTPS and the NCC toured the facilities and held talks on how they would continue to work together in looking after the health and safety of all Carnival City pa

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A little CALYPSO NOSTALGIA from THE YOUNG KILLER

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