The Munroe Road SDMS Hin­du School at Cunu­pia re-opened for class­es on Tues­day.

School was closed abrupt­ly on Mon­day fol­low­ing the mur­der of Ron­nie Pierre, a man who was squat­ting on state lands just north of the school. Gun­men drove along­side the school’s fence and fired sev­er­al shots at Pierre while an­oth­er man who was on the com­pound was chopped and man­aged to flee the scene.

Sources close to the school said Pierre had been squat­ting on the land since 2017, two years af­ter the school was opened. The source said four per­sons from the school’s sup­port ser­vices met with stu­dents. The source said 284 stu­dents at­tend­ed class­es out of the pop­u­la­tion of 381 since many par­ents were still con­cerned about the safe­ty is­sues at the school.

The PTA al­so met with prin­ci­pal Rishi Ma­haraj and po­lice from the Ca­nine and Mount­ed Branch vis­it­ed the school and of­fered to bring the an­i­mals to the schools to in­ter­act with the stu­dents.