Oct 31 Government Defence of New Classrooms is Absurd
The Opposition stands by the concerns raised in its press release on the new St Joseph School’s classrooms and in its role to hold the Government to account, especially when these true facts were related by very informed and reliable sources from various quarters.
Instead of hurling abuse, the Minister for Education would do well to explain the delay in the opening of the facilities, which will only go a small way to improving the quality of education by decreasing the growing size of classrooms at a school and catchment area which has been ignored for nearly two years. The GSD had plans for the use of St Christopher’s School for the larger South District.
The GSD were already working on building the new St Bernard’s School by the general election, it would have been completed by now, and it is this Government that chose to delay the project for 20 months. The GSD announced the building of another new school at Rooke, it is this Government that has no such plans. This highlights the poor delivery on the fabric of education by this GSLP Government so far.
The whole of the Minister’s statement is however thrown into doubt. Despite such an aggressive response, it illustrates how little Government appears to be on the ball when they cannot even correctly identify the Shadow Spokesman for Education.
