PRIME Minister Bruce Golding on Friday broke ground for the $6.2-million construction and expansion of an entrance gate and the re-establishment of ‘Holy Ground’ at the Jamaica College (JC) campus in Kingston.

The re-establishment of ‘Holy Ground’ is in honour and memory of the Jamaica College old boys who died in World War Two. The expansion of the entrance gate will allow for the creation of a dual road for entrance to the school and proper walkways for students.

At the ground-breaking ceremony, chairman of the JC Old Boys’ reunion committee, Joseph Matalon, explained that the old boys wanted to leave a permanent record of their reunion and to give a special gift to the school.

The prime minister said there was a time when Jamaica College was regarded as the school of the privileged. But, he noted, this began to change in the 1960s and 1970s when the whole world was going though a process of realigning and dealing with issues to do with rights and entitlement.

He said JC increasingly opened its door to the point where access was no different from access to any school.