DOWN MEMORY LANE: Taib browsing through piles of old St Joseph’s school magazines. Also seen are (background, from right) Bujang Noor, Fong and Ragad. — Photo by Jeffery Mostapa.
KUCHING: Privatised St Joseph’s School here will start its Primary One and Form One classes in January next year.
This was revealed by Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud at the SJS Band’s Thanksgiving cum Old Josephians’ Reunion Dinner at Riverside Hotel here last night.
These classes will be housed at the current St Joseph Tuition Centre which used to be St Bernadette’s private school here.
Taib said he would contribute his one month’s salary towards the setting up of the school.
Taib, who is a former student of St Joseph’s secondary school, said the new private school would need RM10 million to build and another RM3 million as operation startup cost.
In January this year, church officials broke the news at a dinner on the plan to privatise St Joseph’s government-aided primary and secondary schools.
Subsequently, Taib also affirmed this intention to reporters.
Currently, St Joseph’s secondary school has over 1,500 students while St Joseph’s primary, 855 pupils.
Among those present at the dinner were Taib’s wife Puan Sri Ragad Kurdi Taib, Catholic Archbishop John Ha, former state secretary Tan Sri Datuk Amar Bujang Noor and State Legal Counsel Datuk JC Fong.
- The Borneo Post
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