A contract with a project sum of $566.9M was signed today for the reconstruction of the North Ruimveldt Secondary School which was destroyed by fire on June 19 last year, a release from the Ministry of Education said.
Following a public tendering process, the project was awarded to Kares Engineering Inc. Permanent Secretary, Alfred King signed on behalf of the Ministry of Education. The Project Consultancy was awarded to Marcel Gaskin.
Minister of Education Priya Manickchand said today that every time a school is destroyed, there is a domino effect of actions that have an adverse effect to learning. She said that ordinarily 150 students are placed at the school every year following the National Grade Six Assessment but since the classrooms were destroyed the placement total was reduced to approximately 50 students.
“This is the top school for South Georgetown. So, it means many families in South Georgetown whose children ordinarily could have come here will have to travel further to access the quality of education that was being delivered here,” she noted.
Kares had much publicised problems in its construction of the Kato Secondary School in Region Eight in 2015.