While the defects at the $728 million Kato Secondary School in Region Eight have been fixed in a record two months by contractor Kares Engineering, the school will not be opened when the new term begins tomorrow because there has been a delay in getting it furnished.
“The school has been fixed by the contractor Kares Engineering but it won’t be opened in time for Monday because we can’t get the furniture into the area as yet,” Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education Vibert Welch told Stabroek News last Tuesday.
“We have found that it is not financially feasible to send the furniture by air, and because of the rainy weather, the trucks cannot take them in as yet. The furniture is there, it is ready but we have to wait. So we have to wait for some dry weather …and start that process,” he added.