SENIOR Government officials gloated last week over the passage of a law that names the steelband as the national instrument – 94 years after its invention.
IN this November 2000 picture are then-Prime Minister Basdeo Panday and Pan Trinbago President Patrick Arnold at a function for the granting of State land for a steelband head office and performance theatre.
THE Government is giving foreigners a prized eight-acre parcel of land that was earmarked as the showpiece of an exciting fresh vision for steelband, the national instrument.