Culture department takes steel pans into federation’s primary schools

From SKNIS Observer

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

Minister also awaits Pan Trinbago resolve

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

....“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

WeBeat to honour Power Stars

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

Pan Trinbago Apologising For Attack On Attorney

'It's destroyed my life': Windrush victim recognised as legal citizen after 13 years

UK - The Guardian

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

Get Diaz out -- Pan Trinbago writes minister, NCC

newsday

Melissa Doughty

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

Windrush migrants still sleeping rough one month after minister's promise

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.

Pan Trinbago Central Executive Accuses their President Keith Diaz of Improprieties

On Friday 18^th 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

The Central Executive of Pan Trinbago is appalled at the attitude displayed by members of its Organization

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

NCC can’t get involved

Trinidad Newsday - Joan Rampersad

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

Panist Jonathan Scales with an Anthony Williams Spider-Web Tenor

Pan Trinbago Responds to: “TAKE PAN AWAY FROM PAN PLAYERS”

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Please allow me space to reply to an article written in the Daily Express by veteran journalist Keith Subero on Monday, 7th May 2018 titled TAKE PAN AWAY FROM PAN PLAYERS.

Two calypsos keep bouncing around in my head while

Demonstrations at Pan Trinbago Headquarters

Gregory Lindsay is  feeling concerned

When elected officials brazenly engage in mismanagement, especially corruption, and constitutional provisions cannot remove them forthwith, the fault lies with the wider membership. It is wholly unacceptable that

Pan Trinbago members clash, police called in

PAN FACE-OFF: Pan Trinbago secretary Richard Forteau, right, in a heated exchange with Dane Gulston who, with other members, stormed a meeting at the head office yesterday insisting that Forteau must go.

POLICE were called in yesterday afternoon af

14-17 Park Street PAN TRINBAGO OFFICE IS UNDER SEIGE

Band students study with steel drum professionals

News-Review

Shelly Irvine, center left, and Tracy Thornton, center right, pose for a picture with the Petoskey High School Steel Drum Band.

PETOSKEY— The Petoskey Middle School auditorium was filled with the sound of jazz and steel drums Monday morni

UNESCO hands over steel pans to St. John Bosco Orphanage

Stabroek News - Guyana

The United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Monday donated new chrome-plated steel pan instruments to the boys of the St. John Bosco Orphanage in Plaisance on the East Coast of Demerara.

A rel

What Meghan Markle Means to Black Britons

The New York Times

by Ellen  Barry

“There is nothing that racist people can do about it,” said Tshego Lengolo, 11, about the royal wedding. “So they might as well get used to it.” Credit Andrew Testa for The New York Time

...On the morning of the we

Calypso-Rhythmen auf Ölfässern

Strandparty heißt das Motto des Frühjahrskonzertes der Trachtenkapelle Bleibach. Passend dazu spielt die Kolberg Steelband aus Uhingen auf mit ihren Pans (Ölfässern) und bringt karibisches Feeling in die Festhalle. 

GUTACH-BLEIBACH. Das jährliche Th

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