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Music icon Eddy Grant visits New Amsterdam
Eddy Grant with Police Commander, Clifton Hickens (2nd left) and other police officials yesterday.
Vocalist and music icon, Edmond Montague Grant, better known as ‘Eddy Grant’ yesterday brought life to the township of New Amsterdam with his effervescent presence. A visit organised by he and his team, along with some volunteers from Berbice, saw the “Electric Avenue” hit maker who pioneered the Ringbang genre going to the Regional Democratic Council Region Six, the New Amsterdam Town Council, and the Commander of ‘B’ Division office.
Eddy Grant concluded his visit at the Vryman’s Erven Secondary School with a youth meet and greet.
At Assistant Commissioner Clifton Hicken’s office, Grant was asked to hand over musical instruments provided by the Commander to the community of Angoy’s Avenue. This is an initiative that the Commander said is a stepping-stone to develop the youths of the community through music.
Hicken, while engaging Grant stated that “because I know you love music, we have decided, in your honour, to make a donation of musical instruments. I brought up from Georgetown 52 pieces for a music band and we are gonna start with Angoy’s Avenue and change the stigma attached to that community.
We are gonna have them playing melodious music throughout the entire Berbice”.
This was much to delight of Grant as he eagerly handed over the pieces to a 13-year-old youth from the community.
The Guyanese vocalist who is also the founding member of the group, “The Equals”, one of the United Kingdom’s first racially integrated pop groups, told the Commander in the presence of his deputies Wayne DeHearte, Chabinauth Singh and Timothy Williams along with head of the New Amsterdam Prison, that “there has been a shyness on the part of the international community to recognize the need for reparations with regard to the Africans who laboured and died in this country and it is singularly the last most important issue to be resolved in our world which is heading god knows where at this time”.
Grant exclaimed that it is the struggles that provide individuals with an avenue to do better and be better. “We are a set of people who know about fortitude and we understand pain and we understand starvation and with all of those tools in hand, we must succeed”.
He thanked his team and those who welcomed him for the visit around the town and the visit to the Commander concluded with an entertaining display of steel pan music by the newly formed Police Steel Pan group.
The introduction of steel pan music was brought back into action by the previous commander Lyndon Alves as a medium for youths to be positively occupied during recreational hours, an initiative that is sure to stay alive under Hicken.
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