talent: Young pannists from Success Laventille Secondary School (SLSS) steel orchestra, Success Stars Pan Sounds, had the opportunity to showcase their repertoire of songs for audiences in Cuba.
I must admit my bias. I am an ex-Flamingoes member and band manager. I am now all Exodus, but how much can one band take? The East bands were shut out for most part.
ALTHOUGH shouldering numerous allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement, Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz yesterday called for even more money to be pumped into pan as a method of stemming crime in disadvantaged communi
Both Blue Boy's Rebecca and Ultimate Rejects' Full Extreme won the Road March title and were the tune of choice for the winning Panorama champions in their respective years.
National Carnival Commission (NCC) Chairman Kenny De Silva has apologised for the poor production of the Dimanche Gras show last Sunday. Mr De Silva spoke to the media, during Carnival celebrations at the Piccadilly Greens said, the
THE National Carnival Commission’s (NCC) Strategic Plan for Carnival is being revised. Community Development, Culture and the Arts Minister, Dr Nyan Gadsby- Dolly, made this disclosure in a written response to a question from Princes
A 30-year tradition will come to a screeching halt next Saturday as the popular Champs in Steel Plus (formerly Champs in Concert) concert will be no more.
Thousands of of locals and foreigners alike are in for a massive post-Carniva
...But not only was the show poor in terms of content, it was poor by all other standards as well. The production values were nowhere near where they should be for a show that is supposed to be the pinnacle of the Greatest Show on Earth. Lighting and
In 2017, on this morning, the NCC, abetted by its stakeholder cronies, will again stage a Carnival that studiously ignores everything that happened in the world since then. After demolishing the old Grandstand, calypsonian and politician Winston Pete
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (February 27, 2017) — The Premier’s Ministry is partnering with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to effect a project entitled “Development and Sustainability of Community Based Steel
There was no need for the lamb to lie down with the wolf. It was close, though. Who’s to say the low spark of steel band boys and girls wouldn’t have come into play, helping to render the Rama less a matter of entitlement and more so a festival that
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Cuba-Trinidad and Tobago Cultural Exchange project originated in 2016 when Success Laventille Secondary School, through its Success Stars Pan Sounds accepted an invitation from the Government