Principal of St. George Secondary Dennis Browne presents Malik Hamilton with the Principal’s Prize. Hamilton also won the Cynthia Blackman Award for Leadership, Developmental Skills and Deportment, the Sonja Goodridge Award for Leadership and Public Speaking and the Paul Haynes Award for Leadership.
St. George Secondary School students are being equipped with the tools necessary to break the cycle of deviant behaviour currently affecting society.
Speaking at the school’s Speech Day on Friday, Chairman Calvin Alkins highlighted that recent events in Barbados pertaining to secondary and primary schools have shown that “in the midst of getting a good education, you are still living in a world that is decaying because there are some individuals who are determined to destroy the fabric of this society”.
He noted that while there are some members of the public who would seek to question what good could come out of that educational institution, it is imperative that the student body continues to excel and show that there is in fact excellence coming out of St. George Secondary.
Saying there is an existing cycle which destroys a person’s mind, he emphasised, “St. George would not be a part of that cycle.
“The cycle of people who want to stab and shoot down one another in front of five- and six-year-old schoolchildren. We will not be a part of that cycle because we are focused on maintaining and developing youth as much as possible, and allowing you to become the most productive person you can be.
“Each and everyone of you can break the cycle, by staying far, far away from people who indulge in negative behaviour. It is all about change and choice. We choose at St. George to work hard, we choose at St. George to be morally upstanding, we choose at St. George to be kind, to be patient and to express love to our fellow man. That is how we will stay far away from that cycle,” Alkins continued.
The event carried the theme ‘Gathering Creative Energies for the Future’.
(JMB)