The Sunday Express understands that the October trip comes as a result of a personal request from Prime Minister Basdeo Panday and will involve an interface with the Culture Ministry and the University of the West Indies. They may not be better than anyone else, but they are great. They want to come down and play and work on some drums. They are all musicians. He has turned out 78 pan makers to date and currently has eight tuners and a number of builders in the programme, of which 15 students are doing the work for graduate studies credits.
Nobody can steal the credit for pan anymore.
What we have here is the advantage of technology and people who put money into research.