Kali­fa Clyne

Prin­ci­pal of the Tu­na­puna Hin­du School, Si­ta Ga­jad­hars­ingh-Nan­ga, re­sumed du­ties at the school yes­ter­day, 14 days af­ter an agree­ment was made with the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion for her to do so. Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Tim Gopeesingh said he was ad­vised she was ac­com­pa­nied by three rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) and a school su­per­vi­sor. He was speak­ing to the me­dia af­ter the clos­ing of the Sec­ondary School Prin­ci­pals Work­shop at Crowne Plaza, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day. Gopeesingh said the school su­per­vi­sor held a brief meet­ing with the school's staff at which two board mem­bers were present. He said he had been ad­vised by the chief ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cer that the board mem­bers would meet again with the su­per­vi­sors from the dis­trict of­fice and con­tin­ue to fa­cil­i­tate school op­er­a­tions.

Gopeesingh said the prin­ci­pal would re­main at the school un­til the Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion made rec­om­men­da­tions on the way for­ward. He added: "Whether they will fa­cil­i­tate her trans­fer to an­oth­er school, an­oth­er board school or a Gov­ern­ment school and whether she will re­main in the po­si­tion of prin­ci­pal or not is to be rec­om­mend­ed by the Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion." Af­ter a meet­ing on No­vem­ber 21 an eight-point agree­ment was reached among the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha, the min­istry and TTUTA. TTUTA had re­vealed that the prin­ci­pal had made re­quests re­gard­ing her safe­ty be­fore she could re­sume du­ties. Asked whether or not these re­quests were grant­ed or a com­pro­mise had been reached, Gopeesingh said the pres­ence of the prin­ci­pal and the TTUTA rep­re­sen­ta­tives in­di­cat­ed a com­pro­mise may have been reached.