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Friday, August 8, 2025

Problems remain at Tobago schools

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Loyse Vincent
2404 days ago
20190107
Students attend the first day of school at the Scarborough Methodist Primary School at Calder Hall, Tobago.

Students attend the first day of school at the Scarborough Methodist Primary School at Calder Hall, Tobago.

VINDRA GOPAUL-BOODANN

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary and Sec­re­tary for Ed­u­ca­tion Kelvin Charles says all schools in To­ba­go re­opened yes­ter­day.

How­ev­er, T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TUT­TA) rep­re­sen­ta­tive for the To­ba­go Or­lan­do Kerr said the union is not sat­is­fied with con­di­tions at some schools and will stand firm un­til work­ing con­di­tions for teach­ers and stu­dents are im­proved.

“At the Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School, we are still await­ing the re­pairs at the lab and a Math­e­mat­ics teacher. At Spey­side An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School we have the is­sue with the sew­er­age sys­tem, which needs to be re­paired. When will these is­sues be re­solved?” Kerr asked.

TTUTA rep­re­sen­ta­tive said he has sched­uled meet­ings with teach­ers at var­i­ous schools through­out the week to hear their con­cerns and will “re­main res­olute in en­sur­ing that teach­ers are giv­en the best to per­form their du­ties.”

On is­sues at the Scar­bor­ough RC School, Kerr said while work was done dur­ing the va­ca­tion pe­ri­od to deal with a flood­ing prob­lem, it was “done in haste and there are sev­er­al oth­er is­sues ex­ist­ing at the school.”

The school, which was built at a cost of $85 mil­lion, was com­mis­sioned last Au­gust.

In Sep­tem­ber, con­cerns were raised about flood­ing on the com­pound, slip­pery tiles and the ab­sence of awning to pre­vent rain from blow­ing in­to parts of the build­ing.

Charles said: “Some work was start­ed at the Scar­bor­ough RC School, it is not com­plete, but it should not im­pact the re­open­ing of the school.”

The school’s act­ing prin­ci­pal Pa­tri­cia Wafe said the awning work is on­go­ing.

“We had an is­sue with wa­ter com­ing in at the front that was re­solved,” she said.


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