'Racism's still around': Notting Hill 50 years on from Mangrove
The Guardian - Aamna Mohdin
Despite many changes, some issues remain the same in this area of west London
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New home for Desperadoes Steel Orchestra seen as tourism revenue earner
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
UdeCOTT chairman Noel Garcia, second from right, and employees look at the Desperadoes Pan Theatre billboard before the sod-turning ceremony to start the construction at Nelson Street, Port-of-Spain, yesterday
Port-of-S
Read more…Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley speaks at the sod-turning ceremony for the new Desperadoes pan theatre at Nelson Street, Port of Spain
Sean Douglas - Trinidad Newsday
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley speaks at the sod-turning ceremony for the new Desperadoes pan theatre at Nelson Street, Port of Spain on Tuesday. - Photo by Jeff Mayers
THE Prime Minister said on Tuesday people need t
Read more…‘We brought colour to this country’: the matriarchs of Notting Hill carnival
The Guardian
Whether it’s online or on the streets, women have defined London’s huge celebration of Caribbean culture. We talk steel pans and skimpy costumes with the pioneers who set the tone
Caribbean queens … Allyson Williams, Sister Monica TywaRum and recovery feature in Notting Hill Carnival 2021 launch
By Stephen Spark - SOCANEWS
Not so much a launch as a long-overdue reunion. That seemed to be the general verdict on the official launch of Notting Hill Carnival 2021, on Monday 26 July.
Naturally, the venue was The Tabernacle, Powis Square. In the
Read more…Breaking News - West Indian American Day Parade postponed - News 12
News 12 Staff
Aug 18, 2021, 10:18am
Updated on: Aug 18, 2021, 10:18am
BREAKING NEWS: West Indian American Day Parade postponed until September 2022 due to 'uncertainties surrounding COVID-19.'
The West Indian American Day Parade has been postponed u
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Agendr is live now -- live chat with arranger, composer and producer, Natasha Joseph
Welcome to our first Facebook live chat with arranger, composer and producer, Natasha Joseph (@dpanwoman)
What’s on the AGENDR is a new interactive session with leading and upcoming womxn in the audio and AV industry.
Get to know more about Natasha
Steel pan campers stun crowd
By Andrel Harris -Cayman Compass
Nicolai Christian plays the steel pan alongside 37 other campers. - Photo: Andrel Harris
The unmistakable Caribbean rhythms of the steel pan filled the UCCI auditorium on Friday 7 Aug., as performers, some as youn
Read more…Tuner Conrad ''Broko'' Jordan has passed
When Steel Talks extends condolences to family and friends of Conrad ''Broko'' Jordan on his passing. He will be missed.
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Hueloy Yip Young
Read more…St Bernard: Why New York City boasts of ‘the now generation of pan’
Wired868
Panist Khuent Rose (right) practices his craftBrooklyn, New York, USA - A couple months ago, Yvette Rennie, the president of J’Ouvert City International in New York City, hired me to do a video documentary with some prominent people invo
Read more…Breaking my silence - Gerard Mendez, Treasurer Pan Trinbago
Open letter to the Pan Fraternity and the National Community
LIES, MORE LIES & DAMN LIES
While Sandra Blood of the Trinidad Guardian Newspaper is “used” to painting a rosy picture of Pan Trinbago, on the other hand there exists a dark side in the Bo
Read more…The International Pan Ramajay 2021 Postponed until 2022
Faced with the challenges of the pandemic and the Delta variant Exodus Steel Steel Orchestra has cancelled the 2021 International Pan Ramajay.
Order of Appearance -- Pan in the Pandemic: A Virtual Panorama Competition
Pan in the Pandemic: A Virtual Panorama Competition hosted by the Panache Steel Orchestra!
Here is the order of appearance in both the Steel Band and Soloist categories. This competition is looking TIGHT!
Who will win the first ever Pan in the Pand
Read more…Kassav' - Les Allumés du Bidon with Duvone Stewart
Kassav' - DVD Live - Les Allumés du Bidon with Duvone Steward
Jacob Desvarieux, Guitarist Who Forged Zouk Style, Dies at 65
His band, Kassav’, found millions of listeners as it held on to Caribbean roots while reaching out to the world. He died of Covid-19.
Jacob Desvarieux in 2009. A member of the band Kassav’, he created the Zouk style of music, which combined the Afro
Read more…Former Panist - PM Gonsalves suffered concussion; must be monitored for weeks
Barbados Today
Article by:
Kobie Broomes
SOURCE: CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves suffered a concussion when he was struck in the head by an object outside Parliament on Thursday during the protest organised by the main opposition New Democr
Read more…Steelband clash! ...former Pan Trinbago VP: Ramsey-Moore just like Trump
Trinidad Express -
Chaotic. Toxic. Hostile.
That’s how former Pan Trinbago vice-president Carlan Harewood described the current work environment within the Beverly Ramsey-Moore-led pan body executive.
Harewood shocked the pan frat
Read more…SVG PM injured in protest over mandatory vaccination
Newsday
A bloodied St Vincent and the Grenadines PM Dr Ralph Gonsalves at hospital after being hit with an object outside the Parliament during a protest on Thursday. Photo courtesy social media -
St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ral
Read more…A Moment in Greatness - Planting Seeds - *A Mommy Rocket Story*
Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce was born in abject poverty in the heart of the Kingston inner city. As a schoolgirl she went to the Penn relays in Philadelphia with her high school team. There was a Jamaican woman benefactor there who took some of the Jama
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