Interim Steel Bands Committee launched

Former Principal of the Grenada Boys Secondary School (GBSS), Victor Ashby has been named as head of a six-member government-appointed Interim Committee to take charge of the steelband movement pending fresh elections in September for a new executive.

The interim members of the body were presented to the local media Tuesday, approximately two months after the resignation of Jason Skeete as President of the Steel Bands Associations in the midst of bickering with a breakaway faction.

Culture Minister Norland Cox moved to set up the interim committee as relations deteriorated between the Skeete-led body and a rebel faction involving members of the larger steelbands on the island.

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