The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion will seek the opin­ion of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al con­cern­ing the pend­ing de­ci­sion on whether to pub­lish the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) re­sults this year.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia con­firmed that no de­ci­sion had been made fol­low­ing a Strate­gic Ex­ec­u­tive Meet­ing at Ed­u­ca­tion Tow­er on Tues­day, where the mat­ter was dis­cussed.

“We got an opin­ion from our le­gal of­fi­cer. That opin­ion was dis­cussed and it was de­cid­ed that we would re­fer that opin­ion to the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al be­fore we make our next move,” said Gar­cia at the Suc­cess Laven­tille Sec­ondary School on Wednes­day.

On Tues­day, the Sanathan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha sent a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter warn­ing the Min­istry against stop­ping the pub­li­ca­tion of the re­sults. How­ev­er, Gar­cia said he was yet to re­ceive any such let­ter.

He said while the group was free to use le­gal op­tions, he point­ed out such ac­tion was pre­ma­ture.

“I sup­pose it is the right of Mr (Sat) Ma­haraj to pur­sue this mat­ter through le­gal chan­nels, how­ev­er, I find it is in­ter­est­ing be­cause we have not tak­en any de­ci­sion as yet ei­ther to pub­lish or not to pub­lish,” said Gar­cia, who al­so point­ed out that the SDMS Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al had been a part of a re­cent meet­ing held on the is­sue.

“We have been li­ais­ing with our stake­hold­ers, we have been talk­ing to many per­sons, and in fact on­ly last week we met with a del­e­ga­tion from the as­so­ci­a­tion of de­nom­i­na­tion­al boards and we dis­cussed this same is­sue.

“Mr Sat Ma­haraj was present among about 13 oth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives from de­nom­i­na­tion­al boards. Mr Ma­haraj put for­ward his view and so oth­ers al­so put for­ward their views,” said the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter, who said it was like­ly af­ter re­ceiv­ing the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s in­put, they may be clos­er to a de­ci­sion.