TROPICALFETE’S CARNIVAL FESTIVAL CELEBRATES CARIBBEAN CULTURE, CALYPSO, SOCA, STEEL PAN, MASQUERADE
AND COMMEMORATES THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 IN A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ADULT LEARNING LITERACY ZONE
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TRINIDAD NFL PLAYER expected to make BIG WAVES in 2021 FOOTBALL SEASON starting on Sunday -- as a REAL TRINIDADIAN I am really looking forward to this ...
49ers roster: Javon Kinlaw can take a huge leap in 2021
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Trinidad Carnival 2022: To Be Or Not To Be? A Q&A With The Trinidad And Tobago Promoters Association
Forbes
Baz Dreisinger Contributor Lifestyle
What’s the opposite of a global pandemic?
Trinidad Carnival.
The ultimate life-affirming ritual, a celebration of freedom in its most distilled sense, the Caribbean’s largest Carnival has of course been on
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PanoGrama Entertainment keen on providing opportunities for youth
PanoGrama Entertainment (PE) is dedicated to the advancement of youths and their development. As a result, we have established a professional relationship with the University of the West Indies Mona Campus to provide training experience for interns s
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It’s West Indian Carnival Time In New York, But Without The Famous Parade
There will be no Brooklyn West Indian American Day Carnival Parade again this year, unlike in 2019. (Hayden Roger Celestin image/NANN)
By NAN ET Editor
News Americas, BROOKLYN, NY, Fri. Sept. 3, 2021: For a second year, COVID-19 has side-lined the
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McLean Project for the Arts gets musical with 2021 festival lineup
Steelpan musician Josanne Francis will close out the 2021 MPAartfest on Oct. 3 (courtesy McLean Project for the Arts)
After shifting to a virtual format last year, the McLean Project for the Arts will be
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Trinidad and Tobago/US My Home pan video collab for Independence
Newsday - Julien Neaves
Etienne Charles conducting the band during the recording session. - Courtesy Maria Nunes
Veteran pan composer Mark Loquan has partnered with musician Etienne Charles, photographer Maria Nunes, and a US team for a video proje
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Holman to receive honorary doctoral degree from UWI
Michael Mondezie -Trinidad Express
Pannist Ray Holman says his upcoming presentation of an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by The University of the West Indies (The UWI) signals a growing respect for pan and the calypso artform.
“To me, this sign
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So THE PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO went on a show and boasted about having TWO ACCOUNTANTS on her EXECUTIVE ...
... she said that this was a historical achievement. But the accountants gave an ILLEGAL THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR LOAN to one her friends in Pan Trinbago Politics. And the accountants paid ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for a REHAB JOB of
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Based on VERY PRIVATE INFORMED SOURCES: OCTOBER 31ST is going to be ELECTION DAY FOR PAN TRINBAGO
So we have 60 days of hard, bitter, unscrupulous, gutter sniping POLITICS COMING UP. The race has already boiled down to AQUIL VERSUS BEVERLEY.
ROBERT HERNANDEZ has ZERO CHANCE and all his candidacy will do is SPLIT THE VOTES and put BEVERLEY BACK IN
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Revisiting -- Steel Bands Plan Boycott of Brooklyn's West Indian Parade -- 2001 New York Times
New York Times
By Nichole M. Christian July 19, 2001
By the calendar, it is pan time in Brooklyn, the annual rite of summer when hundreds of Caribbean immigrants and their American-born children turn sidewalks, vacant lots -- any sliver of concrete
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Steel bands to present ‘Rainorama’ in Geneseo Lake
Members of Steel Alchemy, a steel drum band based in Piffard.
GENESEO – Three steel drum bands will bring the tones of the Caribbean to Conesus Lake on Wednesday.
The “Rainorama Concert” — it’s named for a Trinidadian calypso — is scheduled from 6:
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Gorillaz release surprise new EP ‘Meanwhile’, celebrating Notting Hill Carnival - featuring the steelpan
The three-track EP features AJ Tracey, Jelani Blackman and Alicaì Harley
by Will Richards
Gorillaz live. CREDIT: Luke Dyson
The EP’s title track was previewed at the band’s recent sold out shows at The O2 in London, one of which was attended sol
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Understanding the Constitution/Constitutional Reform with Lesedi Felix. Webinar discussion. Please Join us.
Understanding the Constitution/Constitutional Reform with Lesedi Felix
According to Mr. Felix, we can't really ask to amend what we don’t understand, so firstly we must thoroughly go through all the articles of Pan Trinbago's constitution. He has sta
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Mark Loquan & Etienne Charles -"My Home", a gift for Trinidad and Tobago, Independence Day 2021
“My Home”
Shaping the future through our individual actions.
Music, Lyrics & Executive Producer - Mark Loquan
Arranger, Conductor & Producer - Etienne Charles
Associate Producer & Director of Photography - Maria Nunes
Filmed in:
Port of Spain, Trin
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Part 4: Aquil Arrindell : After 28 years of being in the dark, Brazil RX4 Steel Orchestra illumination event.
After 28 years of being in the dark, Brazil RX4 Steel Orchestra received Solar lights from the group Pan Moving Forward (growing stronger together).
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BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE say that after she take she $27,500 a month salary & buy fancy clothes -- allyuh really expect she to go by some OLD PAN BUILDING & scrape old paint off the wall & then drop ...
... drop FRESH PAINT on she FANCY FANCY CLOTHES AND SHOES over some BROKEN DOWN PAN YARD IN GHETTO LAVENTILLE. Allyuh must be mad.
If AQUIL and GREGORY LINDSAY and FUAD and PAN MOVING FORWARD want to do that ... DAT IS DEM POLITICS -- NOT MINE.
MY B
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If I were the POLITICAL ADVISER to AQUIL ARRINDELL -- I would tell him to FORGET TOBAGO ... as a REAL TRINI, i know more about TOBAGONIANS than MOST TRINIDADIANS ...
... and as my JAMAICAN GIRLFRIEND used to say: DOH TEST MEH!!!
As BACKWARD as BEVERLEY has proven to be over MANAGING PAN TRINBAGO -- TOBAGO PAN PEOPLE are TWENTY TIMES BEHIND THAT. So why should AQUIL waste his time listening to UNINFORMED TRINIDADI
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