By Basil Walters—- Lloyd Parkes presenting a bass guitar to Rachel Skyers of Pembroke Hall High—-. WINNERS of the inaugural Jamaica Best School Band (JBSB) Competition, Pembroke Hall High School, are the recipients of a new bass guitar from veteran bassist Lloyd Parkes. The presentation was made recently at the school’s Kingston location. Parkes, who started the We The People Band in 1974, was one of the competition’s judges. He urged the school band to keep practising and be disciplined. The 16-member Positive Vibrations (name of the Pembroke Hall band) won the JBSB competition in May at the Countryside Club. Cornwall College, Dinthill Technical High School and Wolmer’s Boys School, finished runners-up, third and fourth, respectively. … Read entire article »