Class­es at the Raghu­nanan Road Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School re­sumed yes­ter­day, af­ter Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry of­fi­cials and the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (CBC)moved to ad­dress a ro­dent is­sue at the school.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath told Guardian Me­dia that of­fi­cials had been ad­dress­ing the pres­ence of ro­dents at the pri­ma­ry school since the re­open­ing of the new school term.  

Dowlat said of­fi­cials from the cor­po­ra­tion vis­it­ed the school to con­duct bait­ing on the com­pound.

“This ex­er­cise was in­ten­si­fied on Thurs­day, 15 and Fri­day, May 16, 2025. On Mon­day, May 19, 2025, ev­i­dence of ro­dents was found in the bait­ing sta­tions in­stalled at the school and a thor­ough sani­ti­sa­tion of the school was done to fa­cil­i­tate class­es.”

The Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter said the school su­per­vi­sor from the Ca­roni Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­trict Of­fice vis­it­ed the school lat­er that day and found the com­pound to be in a state of readi­ness for the re­sump­tion of class­es by stu­dents, as no ro­dents were found fol­low­ing the in­ter­ven­tions tak­en.

He said, “The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion will con­tin­ue to li­aise with the rel­e­vant agen­cies, the prin­ci­pal and teach­ers for en­sur­ing the re­quired health and safe­ty mea­sures are in place for erad­i­cat­ing the ro­dents at the school.”

One par­ent, Ronald Je­re­my, whose child at­tends the school, said he spoke with an of­fi­cial at the school when he heard about ro­dents at the fa­cil­i­ty. Je­re­my said he was con­cerned about the spread of lep­tospiro­sis and oth­er dis­eases.

Oth­er par­ents told Guardian Me­dia they were hap­py that the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter and min­istry of­fi­cials re­spond­ed quick­ly to the in­ci­dent, al­low­ing class­es to re­sume.