Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago Inc., one of the oldest grassroots organizations in Trinidad and Tobago, is now fighting for its survival in the space and the arena that it struggled long and hard to establish and maintain for over sixty year
When Steel Talks has learned that Central Executive member Cindy Rosemin who served as Assistant Secretary of Pan Trinbago, has resigned. Her resignation represents the second in as many days from the much-maligned organization. The first executive t
Read more…Aquil Arrindell, the man who quit his job as education officer of Pan Trinbago on Friday, said the organisation was crying out for change to ensure greater accountability and transparency.
“There is need for change.
There is need for policies to deal
Read more…Newsday
Embattled Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz is progressing well following emergency heart surgery on Friday, sources said yesterday.
“He is doing good,” the source told Sunday Newsday.
He said Diaz’s surgery was successful so much so that he
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...For Beverly Ramsey-Moore, manager of the Tobago-based Petrotrin KatFor Beverly Ramsey-Moore, manager of the Tobago-based Petrotrin Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra, the panmen’s call for the Diaz-led Pan Trinbago to step down from office is j
Read more…St. Croix Source
Frederiksted, U.S.V.I. - With an assortment of majorettes, marching bands, historical references and story book characters, this year’s parade drew rounds of applause from the spectators who braved the blazing sun to support the isla
Read more…There are multiple reports that another member of the Pan Trinbago Executive board has resigned in support of the Pan Players movement.
The Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama competition is slated to begin this Wednesday, January 11, 2017. However
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Govt closes financial tap
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Government has clipped the wings of Pan Trinbago. The steelband body, now mired in financial mess, will no longer be the sole authority in charge of the Panorama competi
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz yesterday underwent an angioplasty procedure after suffering a heart attack, Pan Trinbago’s secretary Richard Forteau informed Newsday yesterday. He is currently
Read more…When Steel Talks has learned that Central Executive member Aquil Arrindell who served as Education Officer of Pan Trinbago, has resigned. His resignation comes on the heel of recent national protests and calls for the removal of the organization's ex
Read more…The Washington Post
Washington, D.C., USA - ....“I completely separate the pan sound, because I want just the content of what I play to stand out,” he explains. “I’m never comfortable when people say, ‘Man, that’s crazy for a steel pan.’ For me, the
Multiple reports of members of the Pan Trinbago Executive resigning to join the growing Pan Players movement in Trinidad and Tobago has the Pan world buzzing this morning.
Read more…Newsday
PANMEN who went to the bank yesterday attempting to cash cheques individually valued at $1,000, left empty-handed and singing a sour tune, after the cheques ‘bounced’ with bank officials saying there was no money to pay them.
This was confir
Guyana Information Agency
Georgetown, Guyana, S.A. - Over the last five years, there has been a boost in the appreciation and participation in steel pan music. A committed investment has been made on a yearly basis for the provision of three steel
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In light of the fact that the President of Pan Trinbago, Inc. — Mr. Keith Diaz has had a medical emergency today [January 5, 2017] at around 1:30 p.m. and had to be rushed to a medical facility, certain transactions critical
Newsday
Concerns arose that pannists had not been paid, against a backdrop of Culture Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly saying the allocation had been sent to Pan Trinbago, against claims that Pan Trinbago is $30 million in debt and concerns about Pan Tr
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pamberi Steel Orchestra is a steelband located in the San Juan community of east Trinidad where the majority of the members were born and reside. Last year, 2016, there were National Champions emerging from within our commun
Received from one Tobago Steelband, on behalf of other bands on the sister isle:
Subject: Emergency meeting---Did not take in consideration for Tobago bands to attend!!!!!
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Many Bands from Tobago cannot make it to that said meeting (emer
Read more…Panmen staged a peaceful protest outside the head office Pan Trinbago yesterday demanding the immediate resignation of its president Keith Diaz and the entire executive.
The protest was mounted in the wake of the non-payment of monies to panmen for P
Read more…The Philadelphia Tribune
Philadelphia, USA - African-American performance groups who showed in the Mummers Parade on Sunday, said they were glad to be apart of the Mummers’ ongoing effort to diversify.
The Mummers parade has historically been chast
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