AS A LAST WISH, distinguished Barbadian statesman Sir Frederick Smith charged his son Craig with the responsibility of raising funds to support the secondary school which bears his name.
Craig Smith told mourners at his father’s funeral service yesterday at the James Street Methodist Church that Sir Frederick’s “greatest pride” was to see the St James Secondary School renamed the Frederick Smith Secondary School.
While he and his sister Astrid were paying tribute to their father, Craig said the wish to have a fund set up to support the school that bore the Smith name was one of the many “specific instructions” he received from his father when Sir Frederick “realised he did not have much time left”.
“His greatest pride was having the St James Secondary School renamed Frederick Smith Secondary School . . . because of the emphasis he placed on education and he felt that the only way to truly escape poverty was to have a good education,” Craig said.
Please read the full story in today’s Saturday Sun, or in the eNATION edition.