Fire destroys Christ Church Secondary

The raging conflagration

By Shuntel Glasgow

A fire of unknown origin gutted the Christ Church Secondary School on Camp and Middle streets yesterday afternoon, just days after combustion in a lab had to be quelled.

The blaze which started at about 5:15pm has left 502 students, 39 teachers and 9 ancillary staff displaced and will raise growing concerns about protection of schools and other government buildings in the aftermath of a spate of suspicious fires.

Amid claims of the school being set on fire deliberately, Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn said that “There is information which the police are working on as we speak.”