The Three Miles Secondary School in Region Seven, the New Amsterdam Secondary School in Region Six and the Tutorial High School in Georgetown yesterday received new sets of steel pans to boost and enhance their music programmes.
A release from the Ministry of Education said that the instruments were handed over at the Unit of Allied Arts located in the Queen’s College compound. Administrator (ag) of the Unit of Allied Arts, Kurt Braithwaite said that each school will be receiving a pair of double second pans, a pair of double guitar pans, one set of triple cello guitar pans, one set of four bass pans and one set of six bass pans. He said that the schools can also expect a drum set to be handed over shortly to complement the pans, according to the release.

He said that the three sets of pans for the schools were procured at a total cost of $19.6M.
According to Braithwaite, the objective is to have steelpan music back in schools. He said there are now 34 secondary schools in the country equipped with steel pans. Additionally, he said that training was done with some teachers across the country in the area of music which encompassed other instruments.