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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Tobago schools reopen after rough weather on Tuesday

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ANGELO JEDIDIAH
45 days ago
20250611
As schools in Tobago reopen following yesterday’s adverse weather conditions, TTUTA Tobago officer Bradon Roberts has raised concerns over the decision to close all schools on the island.

As schools in Tobago reopen following yesterday’s adverse weather conditions, TTUTA Tobago officer Bradon Roberts has raised concerns over the decision to close all schools on the island.

TEMA

As schools in To­ba­go re­open fol­low­ing yes­ter­day’s ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions, TTUTA To­ba­go of­fi­cer Bradon Roberts has raised con­cerns over the de­ci­sion to close all schools on the is­land.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew pro­gramme on Wednes­day, Roberts ac­knowl­edged the ad­vice and guid­ance pro­vid­ed by TEMA (To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency) and oth­er rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties but ques­tioned whether a blan­ket shut­down was jus­ti­fied.

The Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy on Tues­day or­dered the im­me­di­ate clo­sure of all To­ba­go schools due to ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions as both is­lands were un­der a Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert.

Schools in Trinidad were not or­dered closed.

“I am trust­ing the ad­vice that TEMA gave that would have been sound ad­vice, that re­sult­ed in all schools be­ing closed. But it is con­cern­ing that we are go­ing be los­ing teach­ing days every time rain falls,” Roberts said.

He not­ed that while schools in the coun­try­side were most­ly af­fect­ed by the ad­verse weath­er and should take ap­pro­pri­ate cau­tion­ary mea­sures, schools in ar­eas such as Bon Ac­cord and Ply­mouth were large­ly un­af­fect­ed.

Roberts added that, in ad­di­tion to the loss of a teach­ing day when such or­ders are is­sued, par­ents are al­so se­vere­ly af­fect­ed.

“When I saw the amount of rain falling this morn­ing, I an­tic­i­pat­ed that some par­ents would have been kind of watch­ing, or scep­ti­cal,” he said, “be­cause the chal­lenge is send­ing the chil­dren to school and then be­ing called to pick them back up. That's a big­ger chal­lenge than know­ing that there is no school from the on­set.”

Re­spond­ing to yes­ter­day’s school clo­sure, TEMA di­rec­tor Al­lan Stew­art, al­so a guest on to­day’s edi­tion of The Morn­ing Brew, con­firmed re­ports of flood­ing at Spey­side High School and blocked road­ways near Rox­bor­ough due to fall­en trees, jus­ti­fy­ing pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sures.

Stew­art al­so con­firmed that schools in To­ba­go will re­open to­day.


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