Recently I have had the pleasure of attending a number of Speech Functions and Graduation Ceremonies, but it gives me a particular pleasure to be here this afternoon, since this school is in the constituency that I have the honour to represent in Parliament. The South East Port of Spain Secondary School stands as a symbol of our changing social and economic scene, and I invite you now to consider some of the changes that have taken place. Let us look first of all at what were considered the aims of Secondary Education and hence what sort of Education needs to be provided, in what quantity and to whom. I do not propose to go into a lengthy dissertation on the history of the country. My purpose is much more limited than that.
