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Monday, July 14, 2025

Days after child drowns nursery school to close

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Two days af­ter one of their pupils drowned while on a school sanc­tioned vis­it to the Young Men Chris­t­ian As­so­ci­a­tion (YM­CA), Sharon's Nurs­ery School is shut­ting its doors.The T&T Guardian was in­formed by the aunt of Jemimah Agard, 5, who drowned at the pool, that par­ents were sent an e-mail stat­ing that the school would be clos­ing. She did not spec­i­fy whether the clo­sure was due to the death of Jemimah or oth­er fac­tors.

The aunt who wished not to be iden­ti­fied told the T&T Guardian that a man pur­port­ing to be an in­struc­tor came to vis­it the fam­i­ly at their Rose Hill, Laven­tille, home on Tues­day evening. She said the man was drink­ing a beer and told her he came to cor­rect some mis­in­for­ma­tion that had been re­port­ed. The man, she said, came on be­half of him­self and not the in­sti­tu­tion and told her that Jemimah was at fault since she opened the gate to the pool and went in un­su­per­vised.

The child's body was lat­er found at the bot­tom of the pool af­ter she was dis­cov­ered miss­ing. She said the man apol­o­gised for what hap­pened say­ing he was "feel­ing bad".Speak­ing at the week­ly press brief­ing, at Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion build­ing, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day po­lice in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer In­sp Wayne Mys­tar said the Po­lice Ser­vice was deeply sad­dened by the child's death.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports Jemimah was part of a class which went to the YM­CA, at Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain, for swim­ming lessons on Mon­day. Af­ter the class end­ed and the chil­dren went to change, Jemimah re­port­ed­ly asked to use the toi­let and was al­lowed to do so.

Af­ter some time the teach­ers no­ticed the child miss­ing and be­gan search­ing for her. She was found at the bot­tom of the pool in the deep end and was fished out and giv­en car­diopul­monary re­sus­ci­ta­tion (CPR) be­fore be­ing rushed to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where she died.


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