Cecil Hinkson, ah need ah BIG FAVOUR from you: I want you do do a LIVE VIDEOTAPED INTERVIEW with SALAH WILSON and put it up on YOUTUBE and THIS FORUM!!!

Cecil: Look!!! SALAH have ah good plan for BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE. But she cannot wait another 17 years to IMPLEMENT IT!!!

WST - What has been your great disappointment, and great joy - in Pan?

Salah - “One of my great disappointments so far is the fact that I have, since 2002, presented a “National Musical Literacy Program for the Panyards of Trinidad & Tobago” to the former and present administrations of Pan Trinbago, and also various ministries in the government including those of Education, Culture and Community Development - but there has been no movement or progress in this area. I have to believe that they do not see the picture, they do not see the need for such a project …they do not understand. A decade is now going by.

“In a nutshell the program is a 5-year cycle which at the end of the first cycle, would have brought musical literacy to close to 90% of all participants. Education opens the doors to all opportunities. Everyone would benefit from this type of program. The players would be empowered with musical education, the status of the steelbands would be enhanced. Over 100 people would be continuously employed as teachers and administrative staff. The Ministries of Education and Culture and universities would be involved. Accredited diplomas would be given to the graduates at the end of each cycle of the program. The steelbands would be converted to Steelpan academies, the pan yards would be converted to off-campus institutions. Foreign students would be able to enroll into any steelpan academy of choice, bringing in foreign currency. The program could be exported possibly first to the Caribbean and then internationally… yes, there are many possibilities… but is anyone listening?

“My joy is simply being around the Pan environment be it in Canada, Trinidad or any part of the world.”

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Cecil hinkson April 25, 2019 at 6:15am

Salah and I live in different cities.
- Claude Gonzales > Cecil hinkson April 25, 2019 at 2:34pm
  
  Cecil: With that BIG EXPENSIVE LUXURY CAR ah see yuh DRIVING you could go to as many different cities as you want!!!
  - Cecil hinkson > Claude Gonzales April 25, 2019 at 7:43pm
    
    Boi that Big Expensive Luxury Car belong the D wife, ah marry "UP."
Claude Gonzales April 24, 2019 at 4:31pm

Cecil: Look!!! SALAH have ah good plan for BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE. But she cannot wait another 17 years to IMPLEMENT IT!!!

WST - What has been your great disappointment, and great joy - in Pan?

Salah - “One of my great disappointments so far is the fact that I have, since 2002, presented a “National Musical Literacy Program for the Panyards of Trinidad & Tobago” to the former and present administrations of Pan Trinbago, and also various ministries in the government including those of Education, Culture and Community Development - but there has been no movement or progress in this area. I have to believe that they do not see the picture, they do not see the need for such a project …they do not understand. A decade is now going by.

“In a nutshell the program is a 5-year cycle which at the end of the first cycle, would have brought musical literacy to close to 90% of all participants. Education opens the doors to all opportunities. Everyone would benefit from this type of program. The players would be empowered with musical education, the status of the steelbands would be enhanced. Over 100 people would be continuously employed as teachers and administrative staff. The Ministries of Education and Culture and universities would be involved. Accredited diplomas would be given to the graduates at the end of each cycle of the program. The steelbands would be converted to Steelpan academies, the pan yards would be converted to off-campus institutions. Foreign students would be able to enroll into any steelpan academy of choice, bringing in foreign currency. The program could be exported possibly first to the Caribbean and then internationally… yes, there are many possibilities… but is anyone listening?

“My joy is simply being around the Pan environment be it in Canada, Trinidad or any part of the world.”

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