Cabinet to roll out pan initiative in schools
As preparations are underway for the opening of school for the 2025-2026 academic year, a new proposal is now on the cards for the introduction of pan.
According to Cabinet Spokesperson Maurice Merchant, the Minister responsible for culture and the arts, Daryll Matthew made the proposal to Cabinet this week.
It was approved.
“As it relates to schools, the schools to be reopened very soon, the Minister of Culture, the Minister for Festivals, announced that he put forward a proposal and cabinet agreed to provide resources to have more schools involved in pan,the music program in schools.”
“Government agreed that it will provide resources for developing the steel pan aspect of schools in Antigua and Barbuda,” Merchant said.
Further details on this new initiative will be shared in the future.
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