WEST GRAND BAHAMA, Bahamas -- Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Perry Gladstone Christie used himself as an example to show graduating students how they can move beyond failures and disappointments and still go on to achieve success.
Dwayne Higgins, Principal of the Eight Mile Rock High School, invited the Prime Minister to give the keynote address at the 2012 Commencement Exercise in the school's gymnasium Thursday, June 14, 2012.
Also in attendance at the graduation was Member of Parliament for West Grand Bahama and Bimini and Minister of Tourism the Hon. Obediah Wilchcombe; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry for Grand Bahama, Melvin Seymour, and other senior government officials.
Prime Minister Christie told the 70 graduates, "I was never expected to go to university, because somewhere when I was 13 or 14, I was expelled from the Government sponsored high school, Government High School, on the basis that I did not reach the standard the school would accept as worthy of someone being able to go from the second form to the third form.

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