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| Mr. Enoch Pedro Roberts was born in 1894, at Green Turtle Cay, Abaco. He attended Green Turtle Cay Public School and served as monitor from 1909 to 1913. In the latter year he was appointed a Tidewaiter in the Customs Department where he worked until 1917. Mr. E. P. Roberts joined the Board of Education as a Teacher in Training at the Boys Central School in 1917. During his career he was stationed at the following schools: Public School, Sandilands, New Providence; Public School Gregory Town, Eleuthera; Public School, Kemps Bay, Andros; Public School, Alice Town, Bimini; Boys Central School, Nassau; Quarry Mission School, Nassau Street; Western Senior School, Blue Hill Road; Woodwork Centre, Oakes Field; Technical School, Oakes Field, Nassau. Mr. E. P. Roberts retired in 1970. For his sixty-one years of dedicated service and his outstanding contributions in the field of Education, Mr. Roberts received a certificate of Honour from St. Augustine's College in 1970. He was awarded the Queen's certificate and Badge of Honour in 1972 and an O. B. E. in 1974. Mr. E. P. Roberts was a poet, musician, artist, craftsman, as well as an educator. He died at the Princess Margaret Hospital on March 2, 1976, at the age of eighty-one. Mr. E. P. Roberts was a pioneer in the field of education and contributed much to the development of education in The Bahamas. Named in his honour is the Government's Primary School on Lincoln Boulevard, Englerston in the island of New Providence. |