The Daily Observer
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - The heads of the Princess Margaret School (PMS) steel band and music programme have already envisioned that a recent pledge of as much as $75,000 could provide a suite of new steelpans and even opportunities for students to travel.
Prime Minister Gaston Browne made the pledge during a ceremony at the school on Tuesday and said that while $15,000 would come from his own pockets, he would lobby his corporate contacts to raise the remainder.
Manager of the Serenaders (the PMS steel band) Cleo-Antoinette Hampson-Cordice told OBSERVER media, “Currently the Serenaders are using instruments that belong to the Gemonites Steel Orchestra, so financially it would benefit in getting our own instruments.”
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