Music Festival heading for Lapeyrouse

When last I checked, the Music Festival and SanFest were major planks in the education process, which are crying out for greater government involvement. We cannot abandon the festival and SanFest. No siree.

While SanFest is chugging along, my fear is that the Music Festival is heading in the direction of Lapeyrouse or Mucurapo Cemetery.

The last festival, a scaled-down version, was saved by a government donation. What a shame.

Pretty soon the voluntary organisers will have to come to grips with the future of the festival, and it will be a shame if such a great institution is closed down, while millions of dollars continue to be pumped into Soca Monarch, Chutney Monarch, Best Village, Panorama and calypso.

Now I am reading about one million US smackers placed on the table for the Caribbean Premier League and the Music Festival is treated like a vagrant. Are we serious? Really, the question can be asked: who cares about the Music Festival? Maybe, just maybe, the Ministers of Culture and Education can show some empathy.

KEITH ANDERSON via email