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Education Minister Ronald Thwaites (second right) participates in the symbolic ground-breaking exercise for a $170-million auditorium at Wolmer’s Boys’ School in Kingston last Friday. Also participating are: (from left) Wolmer’s Boys’ School Parent Teacher Association President Daveyton Blake; Students’ Council representative Darren Angus; Wolmer’s Old Boys Association President Kirk Benjamin; Fund-raising Committee Chairman Douglas Orane; Principal Walton Small; Board Chair Pauline Findlay; Wolmer’s Trust Chairman Milton Samuda; and Wolmer’s Sub-committee Chairman Lincoln McIntyre. The project is slated for an April 2015 completion and is expected to be a ‘green’ building, utilising solar and wind energy, as well as sporting facilities for water harvesting. Small said the auditorium will be used as a multi-purpose building and its stage will be built to accommodate plays and theatrical performances with hi-tech lighting and rolling curtains. The institution, situated at Heroes’ Circle, is the oldest school in the Caribbean, having been founded in 1729. The previous School Hall was destroyed by fire in 1991.