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Sunday, July 20, 2025

South East POS teachers agree to work after stay bullet incident

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2054 days ago
20191205
A police vehicle entered South East Port-of Spain Secondary behind a Ministry of Education vehicle as officals and officers visited the school last week.

A police vehicle entered South East Port-of Spain Secondary behind a Ministry of Education vehicle as officals and officers visited the school last week.

ROBERTO CODALLO

Teach­ers of South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School have agreed to work to en­sure that all end of term ex­am­i­na­tions are con­duct­ed for form four, five and six stu­dents be­gin­ning yes­ter­day and end­ing on Fri­day, De­cem­ber 13.

The de­ci­sion came in the wake of se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns ex­pressed by staff at the school fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent where a teacher was grazed by a stray bul­let dur­ing gang ac­tiv­i­ty in the east Port-of-Spain area last week.

The an­nounce­ment of the de­ci­sion was re­leased by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion in a state­ment yes­ter­day.

The min­istry said the de­ci­sion was the out­come of a meet­ing, ini­ti­at­ed by the School Su­per­vi­sors of the Port-of-Spain Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­trict of the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion (MOE).

It said the stake­hold­ers’ meet­ing was held at the school on Tues­day where 11 teach­ers agreed to en­sure cur­ricu­lum de­liv­ery for these stu­dents.

The min­istry said the de­ci­sion of the teach­ers to take the course of ac­tion for the ed­u­ca­tion­al well-be­ing of their stu­dents comes af­ter what it de­scribed as the af­ter­math of a re­cent in­ci­dent where a pro­jec­tile was fired from out­side of the school com­pound while class­es were in ses­sion.

An­tho­ny Gar­cia, Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion praised the teach­ers, say­ing “I must com­mend the ded­i­ca­tion and com­mit­ment demon­strat­ed by the teach­ers to en­sure that their stu­dents are not de­nied the op­por­tu­ni­ty to write their ex­ams. The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion is con­tin­u­ing to hold dis­cus­sions with the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, PTA and all stake­hold­ers to en­sure the sit­u­a­tion at the South East Port of Spain Sec­ondary School is re­solved in a time­ly man­ner.”

On Wednes­day 27 No­vem­ber po­lice be­lieved that gun­men fired off “warn­ing/mes­sage” gun­shots at each oth­er when five stray bul­lets end­ed up pen­e­trat­ing a class­room at the South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School.

One of the bul­lets ric­o­cheted and grazed a fe­male teacher on the hand, while an­oth­er bul­let went just over the head of a pupil while he was sit­ting his end of term ex­am­i­na­tion, miss­ing his head by mere cen­time­tres.

Since the in­ci­dent, the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion said se­nior ex­ec­u­tives from the min­istry led by Min­is­ter Gar­cia met with Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, the May­or of Port-of-Spain Joel Mar­tinez, teach­ers, par­ents and oth­er com­mu­ni­ty stake­hold­ers and dis­cussed mea­sures on ad­dress­ing the se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns of all con­cerned.

The min­istry said the TTPS has im­ple­ment­ed an in­creased se­cu­ri­ty pres­ence around the vicin­i­ty of the school, which pro­vides a greater sense of se­cu­ri­ty for both staff and stu­dents.


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