Class­es re­sumed to­day at Mal­ick Sec­ondary School af­ter teach­ers stayed away from class­es yes­ter­day.

They de­cid­ed to stay away from class­es af­ter they were ad­vised to use an al­ter­nate road­way to ac­cess the school be­cause of the poor con­di­tion of the main ac­cess road.

The teach­ers said they were fear­ful since it meant the new route would mean they had to pass through an area de­scribed as a crime hotspot.

For months now the main ac­cess road to the school has been af­fect­ed by un­der­ground soil ero­sion and it now pos­es a threat to the stu­dents and teach­ers.

With no class­es, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Laven­tille East Mor­vant, Adri­an Leonce, Coun­cil­lor for the area, Kwe­si An­toine along with school’s Par­ents’ Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (PTA), rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), Min­istry of Works and Trans­port and the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion held an hour-long meet­ing at the school.

Vice Pres­i­dent of the Mal­ick Sec­ondary School P-T-A, Karen Wal­ters said her con­cern was that it al­ways takes some se­ri­ous mea­sure, some with­hold­ing of a ser­vice, a protest or strike ac­tion to get some­thing done for the chil­dren of the Mal­ick Sec­ondary School and by ex­ten­sion the chil­dren of Mor­vant.

“Why does this have to reach to this, let­ters were sent out months ago about this road, there was site vis­its and still noth­ing hap­pened, since then it has got­ten pro­gres­sive­ly worst”, Wal­ters said.

She added, “From yes­ter­day to to­day the road has sink more, why do we have un­til things are at the point where it bub­bling over for some­thing to be done, why our chil­dren is al­ways ne­glect­ed it is un­fair and it must be stopped”.

Wal­ters lament­ed that the stu­dents of Mal­ick Sec­ondary School have been through a sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tion al­ready and re­called that stu­dents have been away from class­es for a term in 2017.

Speak­ing to the Guardian, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Laven­tille East Mor­vant, Adri­an Leonce said he is aware the con­di­tion of the road has been an is­sue and he brought it to the at­ten­tion of the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port.

He added a meet­ing was card­ed for the end of the week to deal with the is­sue but when the class­es were sus­pend­ed the meet­ing was called with all stake­hold­ers to come to an am­i­ca­ble so­lu­tion.

“The plan now is to put a bai­ley bridge to give teacher and stu­dents safe ac­cess to the school, and the time­line for will be four to five days to be in­stalled,” MP Leonce said.

He added,“ With­in those days the teach­ers will be parked at Day Break As­sem­bly church car park and then be shut­tled to the school and they all agreed to it”.

MP Leonce said, “the main ob­jec­tive is to get the stu­dents back to school and it is on­ly one day of dis­rup­tion and I am hap­py that all par­ties have come to an am­i­ca­ble so­lu­tion”.