For many par­ents, liv­ing long enough to see their chil­dren ful­fil their dreams, is a dream it­self. But the daugh­ter of 110-year-old Irv­ing Joseph, of Ari­ma, said this is her fa­ther’s re­al­i­ty,

“One of his dreams for me per­son­al­ly was to be­come a teacher, you know he al­ways want­ed me to be­come a teacher and I was like ‘no’ and even­tu­al­ly I end­ed up turn­ing out to be a teacher and I know he is very hap­py about that,” his youngest daugh­ter Josanne Joseph said.

The su­per­cente­nar­i­an who cel­e­brat­ed his birth­day at his St Joseph Street home on Tues­day, sur­round­ed by his loved ones, was paid a spe­cial vis­it by Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment (MP) for the area and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les. She said she has made room in the cal­en­dar for Joseph's birth­day every year since he turned 100 years old.