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Education vital to hitting Guyana's sustainable development goals

Rupert Roopnaraine
Minister of Education for Guyana

Guyana is one of the highest ranked developing countries in the Education Index of the United Nations Human Development Report but continues to struggle with the provision of increased access to sat

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‘Mas Man’ Film on Peter Minshall Continues Awards Streak

Mas Man, a film about artist-designer Peter Minshall, produced and directed by Dalton Narine, won the Long Beach International Film Festival prize (http://www.longbeachindie.com) for Best Feature Documentary on Oct. 11, in Long Beach, a city in Los A

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No live TV for Soca Monarch next year -- Is this a working model for Panorama?

The message below is from the International Soca Monarch

The International Soca Monarch (ISM) is evolving! For the 2016, there will be no live television broadcast, no live pay-per-view and no online streaming of the ISM final. Instead, the show wil

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International Panorama Available on DVD

The long-awaited Limited Edition DVD recording of the International Panorama is available

International Panorama DVD Captured “live” from the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad, the set comprises the twenty four (24) competing steel orchestras on three (3) discs.

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David Ijaduola - Music is my Life

by Robbie Joseph

David ijaduola is an all-round musician from being a performer to an arranger and composer. His musical interest started at the tender age of 3 when he began to play his mother’s pots and pans using spoons as his sticks to imitate dr

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Who are these great Pan men and what do they have in common?

Men of Steel

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Pan in D Country Side 2015

Pan Trinbago's "Pan in D Country Side" 2015 was fantastic. All participants and patrons agreed that it was one of the best. Maybe it was because of the nature of the event. In this, the last such event for 2015, a number of Steelbands volunteered to

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When Steel Talks and BestOfTrinidad.com Collaborate

Ronald C. Emrit with the Trinidad Steelband in Washington, DC, at the State Department Christmas Party hosted by the late Senator Robert Kennedy (December 1967)

As one of a few considered avenues for expanding WST’s historical data, facts and figur

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Antigua Girls’ High is steel band champs

Representative from the Antigua Girls’ High School (centre), Princess Margaret School (right) and St Joseph’s Academy (left) share the winners circle after Saturday’s Secondary School Panorama Competition.

The Antigua Girls’ High School is the 2015

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New York Pan Pioneer Milton Gabriel has passed

When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family an d friends of Milton Gabriel.

Brooklyn, New York - The Big Apple again took the lead, by honoring its central steelpan music figures in the development of Pan in New York, as the Trinidad & Tobago

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Happy Birthday to Ellie Mannette

When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to panist, tuner and inventor Ellie Mannette.

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Clive Bradley - The Master Remembered on His Birthday - November 4

Today is the birthday of the late master arranger Clive Bradley. He would have been 88 years old today - Monday November 4, 2024.

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Pannist Earl La Pierre receives award in Trinidad

Prolific pannist Earl La Pierre has been honored in Trinidad for his contribution to the development and promotion of the steel pan.

Ground-breaking Trinidadian steel pan band, Invaders, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, honored the Cayman

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Sloppy show put pan in jeopardy

Pan aficionado and arranger Khan Cordice is warning that poor showings like Thursday night’s school’s panorama competition could put the future of the art form at risk.

Cordice, a teacher at both the Clare Hall Secondary School and the St Joseph’s Ac

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Happy 15th anniversay to Pan Podium

When Steel Talks extend well wishes to Pan Podium. Great job...

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What the bands are playing - Trinidad and Tobago Panorama 2016

o = Junior Panorama \| s = Small \| m = Medium \| l = Large
	Orchestra	Tune	Arranger
s	Antillean All Stars	"Carnival Tabanca"	Glen "Zola" Williams
m	Arima Angel Harps	"Dance Floor"	Shelton C. Besson
s	Arima Golden Symphony	"D Greatest Inv

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New Soca Tunes for Carnival 2016 - Trinidad and Tobago

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Happy Birthday to Panist, Arranger and Composer Len "Boogsie" Sharpe

When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the legendary Len "Boogsie" Sharpe

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Steel pan champ launches formal complaint after pub ban

The Voice - Written by Poppy Brady

A manager of the Hungry Horse pub in in Birmingham claimed the talented musician was trying to 'hawk' around his music

STEELPAN champion Mighty Jamma has put in a formal complaint to West Midlands Police after h

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Pan Trinbago Elects New Executive… - Election Results

Four (4) members of Pan Trinbago’s Central Executive were re-elected at the Organization’s Fifth Triennial Special Convention and Annual General Meeting at The Radisson, Wrightson Road, Port of Spain, on Sunday.

They are Keith Diaz (President), Byron

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