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MIAMI – Caribbean American musician and steel pan protégé, Kobie Alleyne, was selected as a Presidential Scholar at Berklee College of Music commencing this fall, September 2018.
Kobie is a first generation college stu
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Regional heads of Pan Trinbago want panmen to be paid directly and not through their organisation’s central executive.
Gerard Mendez (North), Marie Toby (Tobago) and Carlon Harewood (East) said so at a pr
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Three regional chairmen of Pan Trinbago yesterday called for the resignation of its central executive and president Keith Diaz, stating that the pan organisation needs to be properly restructured for it to go forward.
The call was made by Tobago’s re
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason, aged 19, was the cellist at the royal wedding, Saturday before last. Just about the time he was playing Schubert’s Ave Maria, in a setting of style and civility, two things happened.
The first was my train
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The steelpan instrument continues to evolve to keep abreast of the digital era that faces the world in the 21st century that we live in. Steelpan Apps, Blogs, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, G
Global - He is a scholar, an intellect, a musician and a coach - just to name a few. Indeed, depending on when you crossed his multifaceted life, met or engaged him - the name Dave LaBarrie will ring differently to you. He’s been an assistant high
Read more…The Pan Trinbago Act of 1986
The Constitution of PanTrinbago Inc.
(WORLD GOVERNING BODY FOR PAN) PREAMBLE We, the members of PAN TRINBAGO (INC.), as God-fearing, peace-loving and law-abiding people, hereby pledge allegiance to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and declare our
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – The Department of Culture, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, is holding a series of pan classes in various public and private primary schools throughout the federation.
Nigel Williams, music
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....“Pan Trinbago is a private organisation,” Dr Nyan Gadsby Dolly said. “It’s not an arm of the government. The ministry has no locus (authority) to intervene in its present governance situation. This impasse presents an
Trinidad Newsday
THE St James Community Improvement Committee (St James CIC) has selected Power Stars, formerly known as Blue Stars, as this year’s WeBeat St James Live 18 honoree.
The steelband was established in 1957 as Blue Stars, but ten years la
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Pan Trinbago is apologising for an attack on Attorney Fareed Scoon as he served High Court documents on Pan Trinbago's President, Keith Diaz, at a meeting held at the Communication Workers Union Hall on Thursday, May 17th.
The meeting was called b
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In a rare insight into the workings of Lunar House immigration HQ, Hubert Howard recounts how he lost his job and was denied benefits after the Home Office said he was an illegal migrant
For the past 13 years, Hubert Howard has t
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Culture Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly and Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz at the Queen’s Park Savannah in January.
MEMBERS of Pan Trinbago’s central executive have written to the Ministry of Community Development, Culture
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Vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still living in destitution on the streets, despite government promises to sort out the crisis that led to thousands of people being wrongly targeted by a government crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Read more…On Friday 18th May 2018, the same mob that assaulted Attorney Farid Scoon at the Communication Workers Union hall the day before, invaded the head office of Pan Trinbago with placards and shouting at the top of their voices that the duly elected off
Read more…Saddening, Maddening and Frightening, is the only way to describe the despicable behavior of a few regional officers and members of Pan Trinbago Inc. TC, who had gathered at the Communication Workers Union hall at the behest of the President Keith D
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Extempo legend Winston 'Gypsy' Peters
National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters has said the NCC cannot get involved in Pan Trinbago's internal affairs.
He said: “It is unfortunate, but tha
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