School with top SEA student hoping for a repeat

THE SCHOOL which produced the top SEA student of 2003  is hoping to repeat the feat this year. Sharing in that hope is Junior Minister in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education, Satish Ramroop. He said as much when he addressed a graduation ceremony at the Montrose Government School. The Minister’s daughter, Sadana, was among the 166 graduates. Ramroop revealed that he had been closely connected to the school for more than a decade, since his wife, Shrimatie, was a teacher at the school. He admitted that as a politician it was difficult to please “all the people all the time but that apart, my philosophy in life is to assist people whenever and however I can.” He said he had entered politics, not to land a ministerial post but to serve the people.

Ramroop told the graduates he hoped all of them would be assigned to the secondary schools of their first choice. He added: “You are the masters of your own destiny and of your own fate and whatever you want to become in life, just work hard and conscientiously and you will achieve it. “What you put in  you will get out. In that regard  it is just like the computer,” he added. Also addressing the graduates was clinical psychologist Dr Dianne Douglas. “Trinidad and Tobago needs you as you carry our dreams, our aspirations and our hope,” she told the students. “We did not get all the things right when we were growing up and we hope that you will get them right.” Dr Douglas told the graduates she hoped “that when you grow up crime, racism and prejudice will be extinct. “You must not live selfish lives but you must be intensely interested in social justice,” she said.