POOR SOUND QUALITY AT VEE SHOW

Vee and Oska Bora Teachere crossed business paths at what was otherwise a hugely successful year- end show at the National Stadium. The one fly in the ointment is that the sound quality at that show was gratingly poor and one too many revellers who attended pointed that out in various media. The complainers don’t actually have a case because Vee only promised them a music concert – not good sound quality. That is borne out by the promotional material and the pre- show media interviews that Vee did. Nowhere did the issue of the quality of the sound system come up and nowhere did Vee promise that the PA system would give out good sound quality. And let’s not forget that Vee did revellers a favour. He could have lip- synched to canned music because there was never any legal specificity with regard to what kind of show he would put on.

INTENSIFY ENGLISH LESSONS

Next month, the finance minister and rumoured future president, Peggy Serame, will present the budget for the 2023/ 4 financial year. In turn and at a later stage, each ministry will submit its budget proposal to the Committee of Supply, that being the nickname MPs collectively assume when they consider budget proposals from ministries. We urge the Minister of Education and Skills Development to allocate more funds for the Department of Non- formal Education. Those funds should be used to intensify English lessons for grandparents who are enrolled for non- formal education programmes.

Why English? These grandparents have grandsons ( most are called Junior) and granddaughters ( most are given African- sounding African- American names) who visit during holidays. It so happens that the Juniors and Laquishas speak English only and are thus unable to communicate with their grandparents – who babysit when the parents hop from one music concert to the next for the entire duration of the holiday. The alternative - teaching grandchildren indigenous languages, would be fiercely resisted by the parents because they genuinely believe that such languages might contaminate the perfect English their children speak.