Web Posted - Friday
May 1, 2026
The Voice St. Lucia News
Diamond Steel is Back
Official donation of steel pans to Diamond Steel Orchestra
Castries, Saint Lucia, W.I. - The
Diamond Steel Orchestra is making a much needed come back onto the
local steel pan scene and the St. Lucia carnival generally.
The resurgence of the Marchand based band was handed another lifeline
this week when Prime Minister and Parliamentary Representative Philip J.
Pierre officially donated steel pans to the organization.
....The new facility named The Gregory “Shining” Emmanuel Pan
Shed, after its founder and steel pan icon, is situated within
the Marchand Ground sporting complex.
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When Steel Talks
2026 Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband Panorama Info - Complete
Global - PanOnTheNet/ WhenSteelTalks is
Panorama Central! Complete information on the 2026 season of the Trinidad and
Tobago National Panorama, and competitions: Schedules, Orders of Appearance
for preliminary, semi-final and final phases for large, medium and small conventional
steel orchestras, and single pan bands; arrangers’ bios, bios of steel orchestras;
full results, panyard addresses, history of previous Panoramas, and much more!
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Facebook got it wrong - Meta World and WST & SteelPan Are Friends Again
Facebook “Likes” sends PanOnTheNet Apology - “We got it
wrong”
Metaverse - Facebook got it wrong. About
three years ago without warning or reason all WST (When Steel Talks) steelpan-related
accounts fell out of favor with the social media giant Facebook now known as
Meta and its aligned consortiums (Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp). Because
WST has all of our material hosted on our own shared servers, this ‘tag’ was
not incurable or as problematic as it could have been. However, it was annoying
to have people seeking critical steelpan music info diverted by Facebook AI
(artificial intelligence).
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Technology Giant “Google” Celebrates the steelpan instrument via Google
Doodle
Celebrating Steelpan - Illustration by artist Nicholas Huggins
Doodle of steelpan instrument ‘live’ on Google’s web site
Global - On Tuesday July 26, 2022 the
steelpan instrument of Trinidad and Tobago is featured and celebrated on the
site of technology giant “Google” via the famed Google ‘Doodle.’ The ‘Doodle’
is essentially an illustrative change made to the Google corporate logo “to
celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers,
and scientists” - and more. The doodle is then seen by users all around the
world who access Google’s homepage on that day, and is available thereafter
in the doodle archives.
....Trinidad and Tobago-based artist Nicholas Huggins is the creator of the
illustrative artwork featured in the doodle, while
Etienne Charles is the composer of the accompanying music performed by the
legendary steelpan icon
Len “Boogsie” Sharpe.
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