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Monday, July 14, 2025

New school building ready after Easter

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Af­ter days of protests, par­ents and stu­dents of the Pe­nal/Quinam Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School have been as­sured they would be able to move in­to their new build­ing af­ter the East­er va­ca­tion.

Maran­da de Ver­teuil-Men­doza, pres­i­dent of the Par­ent Teach­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion (PTA), said this as­sur­ance was giv­en fol­low­ing a vis­it to the school on Wednes­day by of­fi­cials from the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry, as well as the Ed­u­ca­tion Fa­cil­i­ties Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny (EF­CL).

De Ver­teuil-Men­doza said while they would have liked to move in im­me­di­ate­ly, they were hap­py for the vis­it and the an­swers to their many ques­tions.

"We were told that be­cause of cur­rent in­com­plete struc­tures with­in the school, rather than rush to com­plete the re­main­ing works, this will be done dur­ing the East­er va­ca­tion and the school would be avail­able for use when the new term be­gins on April 11."

For two con­sec­u­tive days this week, the stu­dents and their par­ents blocked the roads and burned tyres to bring at­ten­tion to the con­di­tions of their tem­po­rary ac­com­mo­da­tion in eight ship­ping con­tain­ers at the Mendez Vil­lage Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, while the new build­ing was un­der con­struc­tion.

The par­ents claim cock­roach­es, rats and snakes were found at that lo­ca­tion and had been keep­ing their chil­dren away.


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