Teach Sparrow’s music in schools!

According to Barbados Nation, By Ricky Jordan In Trinidad While the grandstand of Trinidad’s Queen’s Park Savannah will now carry the name of Slinger Francisco, also known as the Mighty Sparrow , Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has called for his music to be used in formal education and to also remind upcoming generations of the obstacles he and others of his era faced before “punching above our own weight”. Addressing the funeral service of the Calypso King of the World at the National Academy of the Performing Arts in Port of Spain last Friday, Mottley said Caribbean citizens like the Mighty Sparrow had redefined what was our “weight” and, therefore, it was necessary to teach youths about the limitations that were overcome by Sparrow and his contemporaries. She added that he and others who helped to create the great post-Independence Caribbean civilisation in the last 60-plus years would be leaving us, thereby maki