Meet Jovanka Williams - Guyana, S.A. - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Jovanka Williams
Guyana, S.A.

Guyana, S.A. - “I love performing and entertaining people. Seeing the joy on their faces when we play is priceless. On the other hand, being able to educate the nation’s future and somehow play a part in the maint

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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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Ministry Clarifies - Lucas Was Not Fired As NCC Chairman

Written by C News

The Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts is dispelling rumours that Colin Lucas was fired as Chairman of the National Carnival Commission.

The Ministry said Mr. Lucas, having been appointed to the position of C

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Meet Patricia Black - Trinidad & Tobago - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Patricia Black
Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “I come alive as I transform into the woman on the bass while I lose my soul jamming to the sweetness, the harmonic and melodious arrangement by my legendary arranger Len “Boogsie” Sha

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Pan Trinbago accused of power grab

Trinidad Newsday

Pan Trinbago executive members from left, Darren Sheppard, Richard Forteau and Andre Salvador at a press conference on Tuesday. PHOTO BY ANGELO MARCELLE

Pan Trinbago secretary Richard Forteau said on Tuesday that he and fellow mem

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Please leave - AINSWORTH MOHAMMED - Newsday

THE EDITOR: In the interest of the steelband movement I do not wish to tarnish the Pan Trinbago brand, though the organisation has done that all on its own. I have never publicly denounced Pan Trinbago in spite of the fact that it has been poorly adm

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HERE’S WHY BOOGSIE WILL REBOUND FROM HELLO

Remember What More Love Did To Smooth's Bounce and Drive?

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by Dalton Narine

...More props, too, go to Sharpe and his band of merry men, the final night graveyard performance having pushed them to exhaustion foll

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TIME FOR BANDS TO RESIGN FROM PAN TRINBAGO...

This is the easiest solution, Large bands should take a leadership role here.

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It just seems to me that RICHARD FORTEAU is going to be THE WINNER in this POLITICAL BATTLE

A few months ago, a POSTER who lives in TRINIDAD, and who has LIVED a life of PAN in Trinidad -- made the comment that RICARD FORTEAU was the POLITICAL BRAIN behind KEITH DIAZ. Now everybody on this forum knows how much I have PRAISED KEITH DIAZ over

Started by Claude Gonzales in News

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RICHARD FORTEAU STATES HIS CASE

Richard Forteau states that the extraordinary meeting facilitated by Keith Diaz and Aquil Arrindell and Gregory Lindsay was illegal. So he is suing Keith Diaz and Gerard Mendez and Marie Toby.

Richard Forteau is asking for financial compensation and

Started by Claude Gonzales in News

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Rudd has gone but hostile environment policy set to stay

Measures that hurt Windrush generation and led to home secretary’s demise still popular with public and politicians

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Amber Rudd may have been forced to resign as home secretary but the policies behind the Windrush scandal remain.

The plight of some

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No election until the court case done; photo and Diaz have to remain there until.

No election until the court case done; photo and Diaz have to remain there until.

Let me start by saying this is not fact, but speculation. However, based on my analysis this would not become a reality.

Yesterday I received numerous calls about t

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Fighting for STEELBAND CRUMBS down in TRINIDAD and TOBAGO

All over the world, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE just LOVE STEELBAND MUSIC. Ah witness it personally with my own eyes and I also keep READING ALL ABOUT IT.

Man, if we ever put a halfway decent ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM to run PAN TRINBAGO the SKY could be the LIMIT

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Tobago Jazz Experience Concerns

Who is the target audience? What do the organizers hope to achieve?

Questions often asked in relation to the Tobago Jazz Experience.

In recent times there have been questions about the sustainability of the annual event, with many people calling

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Sadiq Khan tells Amber Rudd to quit over Windrush scandal

The Guardian

Sadiq Khan at celebrations in London marking the Sikh religious festival Vaisakhi Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has piled further pressure on Amber Rudd to resign as home secretary as he launched a devasta

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This Scandal Is More Deep Rooted Than We All Think

"We need to remember the Windrush Generation shaped what Britain is today" says Edward Adoo

Written by Edward Adoo

ISSUE: The Windrush crisis

THE RECENT scandal which has engulfed British parliament and the Home Office on how the Windrush Gener

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Solo success with ‘Caribbean Pan’

Barbados today

Alternative music offerings are unfolding and steel pan music is on a growth path. It is more accessible and the change is led by technological and individual creativity.

Not so long ago, a band consisted of a rhythm section, guitars w

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Do Pan Trinbago leaders love pan?

Trinidad Newsday

The words “love for pan” have transcended to the present leaders in Pan Trinbago who were elected to protect and promote the interest of pan and the panman. But the cry among today’s players is that the executive of the organisation

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Where is KEITH DIAZ getting money from to seek legal representation to appear in court NEXT WEDNESDAY?

And where did FORTEAU and his LARGE CREW get money from to pay attorneys Farid Scoon and Saeed Trotter?

Don't tell me that they are using PAN PLAYERS MONEY to fight each other in court!!!

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Meet Jovanka Williams - Guyana, S.A. - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Jovanka Williams
Guyana, S.A.

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

Meet Justina Ploeger
Germany

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

Meet Nakiya Athina de Freitas

Ministry Clarifies - Lucas Was Not Fired As NCC Chairman

Meet Patricia Black - Trinidad & Tobago - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Patricia Black
Trinidad & Tobago

Pan Trinbago accused of power grab

Trinidad Newsday

Please leave - AINSWORTH MOHAMMED - Newsday

HERE’S WHY BOOGSIE WILL REBOUND FROM HELLO

Remember What More Love Did To Smooth's Bounce and Drive?

Back to the Archives - The Year of 2013

by Dalton Narine

TIME FOR BANDS TO RESIGN FROM PAN TRINBAGO...

It just seems to me that RICHARD FORTEAU is going to be THE WINNER in this POLITICAL BATTLE

RICHARD FORTEAU STATES HIS CASE

Rudd has gone but hostile environment policy set to stay

No election until the court case done; photo and Diaz have to remain there until.

Fighting for STEELBAND CRUMBS down in TRINIDAD and TOBAGO

Tobago Jazz Experience Concerns

Sadiq Khan tells Amber Rudd to quit over Windrush scandal

This Scandal Is More Deep Rooted Than We All Think

Solo success with ‘Caribbean Pan’

Do Pan Trinbago leaders love pan?

Where is KEITH DIAZ getting money from to seek legal representation to appear in court NEXT WEDNESDAY?

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Trinidad Newsday

Remember What More Love Did To Smooth's Bounce and Drive?

Back to the Archives - The Year of 2013

by Dalton Narine

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Meet Jovanka Williams
Guyana, S.A.

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Germany

Meet Patricia Black
Trinidad & Tobago