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Members of the Spiritual Shouter Baptist faith are welcoming the announcement by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar that her Government plans to construct a secondary school for the community, reviving a long-standing demand from within the faith for equal access to denominational education.
Speaking in Parliament on Friday, ahead of the Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day holiday on Monday, the Prime Minister said the move builds on earlier work to establish both a primary school and an early childhood education centre for the community by the United National Congress.
“We understand that land alone is not enough. I have always said the passport out of poverty, the passport to a better life, is education. And thereafter, when I was Minister of Education, I worked with the Spiritual Shouter Baptists, and we did the primary school for them. I didn’t stop at primary school… we then gave the ECCE,” she said, pointing to initiatives undertaken during her tenure under the Basdeo Panday administration.
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