Par­ents of pupils at St Rose’s Girls’ RC are an­gry, af­ter an ac­com­mo­da­tion sys­tem at an­oth­er RC school in Port-of-Spain fell through yes­ter­day when the shut­tle sys­tem failed to ar­rive.

The school, lo­cat­ed at Hen­ry Street, Port-of-Spain, has faced chal­lenges in the past year, as parts of it are cor­doned off due to di­lap­i­da­tion. The school has al­so been ear­marked for re­con­struc­tion.

At present, pupils are be­ing ac­com­mo­dat­ed at Rosary Boys’ RC School and oth­ers are sup­posed to be housed at St There­sa’s Girls’ RC Pri­ma­ry School.

How­ev­er, yes­ter­day, par­ents who con­tact­ed the me­dia said two hours af­ter drop­ping off their chil­dren, they were called to re­turn to pick them up.

Par­ent Takeisha Clair­mont claimed the maxi-taxi hired to shut­tle the stu­dents from St Rose’s Girls’ RC to St There­sa’s RC nev­er ar­rived. She added that a to­tal of 75 chil­dren were af­fect­ed and they are now urg­ing the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and the Catholic Ed­u­ca­tion Board of Man­age­ment to in­ter­vene.

“Next month will make it a year since the school has been shut down and the min­istry has promised par­ents that they will house the stu­dents in St Clair, but that did not hap­pen. How­ev­er, last year in Oc­to­ber, they told us that Stan­dard One and Two stu­dents would be joined with stu­dents at the St There­sa’s Girls’ RC School and on Fri­day, they told us that the school will be on ro­ta­tion and the stu­dents will have full-time school,” Clair­mont said.

She said par­ents were un­der the im­pres­sion every­thing was in or­der for the pupils, in­clud­ing their trans­port.

“The stu­dents were sup­posed to be shut­tled to the school this morn­ing, how­ev­er, this did not hap­pen. We were told that a 12-seater maxi-taxi was sup­posed to be used but the maxi taxi nev­er showed up and imag­ine this maxi is ex­pect­ed to car­ry 76 chil­dren to and from the new lo­ca­tion.”

Guardian Me­dia ob­tained a mes­sage from the school’s Par­ents Teacher’s As­so­ci­a­tion to par­ents, which stat­ed: “I re­gret to in­form you that no shut­tle has ar­rived and will not be ar­riv­ing to­day un­til fur­ther no­tice. We are await­ing word from PTSC and the min­istry as to when this ser­vice is to of­fi­cial­ly be­gin. I humbly apol­o­gise for this in­con­ve­nience. We go back to ro­ta­tion from to­mor­row un­til fur­ther no­tice and stu­dents 1 and 3 will re­turn to Rosary Boys’ RC School to­day.”

Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry on the mat­ter but was told by of­fi­cials that it was be­ing “looked in­to” and a state­ment would be re­leased soon.