Call for pan in preschools

[Pan Times]

Trinidad Guardian 

by Jesse Ramdeo

Mary Cuffy autographs a book for nine-year-old Emma-Leish Moore at the book launch yesterday. © Anisto Alves

It is said that knowl­edge is pow­er and ac­cord­ing to chil­dren’s au­thor Mary Cuffy, equip­ping the na­tion’s youth with in­for­ma­tion on the na­tion­al in­stru­ment will give them the abil­i­ty to take the steel pan to the soar­ing heights it can reach.

Dur­ing the launch of her book en­ti­tled Lo­la and the Mag­ic Sticks at the Na­tion­al Li­brary in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, Cuffy said “we have a rich his­to­ry and when I looked at the min­is­ter of ed­u­ca­tion, he was talk­ing about get­ting more ex­pert pan play­ers, he was go­ing to in­tro­duce more pans in schools but I didn’t hear him men­tion any­thing about ear­ly child­hood and that’s where I got the in­spi­ra­tion.”

Ac­cord­ing to Cuffy, the book Lo­la and the Mag­ic Sticks is in­tend­ed to get chil­dren ex­cit­ed about play­ing the steel pan.

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