Two weeks after parents padlocked the gates of the partially burnt-out Parfait Harmonie Primary School and threatened to stage another protest, the Local Government Ministry has said that the repairs will start as soon as the ministry advertises for tenders.
On Monday, Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Ganga Persaud announced that $14 million, an estimated sum, was set aside to effect repairs to the section of the school that was destroyed by fire in March. That amount is to restore the burnt-out section of the school and to make infrastructural improvements to make it an environment conducive to learning he explained,