Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines W.I. - Commissioner of Police Keith Miller is calling on parents to encourage their children to get involved in playing the steel pan. The Commissioner made the call on Wednesday at a news conference held at the Central Police Station.
The top cop noted that a number of students who sat the June 3 Common Entrance Examination, and did very well, were products of the Pan Against Crime Initiative. He pointed to 11-year-old Alron Harry who placed first for boys and first overall in the examination.
The Commissioner underscored that Harry, a serious tenor and double tenor panist with the South East Steel Orchestra from Stubbs, is a product of the Pan Against Crime Initiative, as well as the band for which he plays.
....“I remember it was said, many years ago, that the steel pan is a bad boy thing. That is what I heard. I am really happy that the steel pan now is seen as an instrument that our young people can gravitate to and do not waste time,” Commissioner Miller said.
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Who could disgree? If pan can heal a community, it can also heal a nation.
Peter