RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

Twe­ny-four schools through­out T&T were af­fect­ed by the strong winds as­so­ci­at­ed with a trop­i­cal wave on Thurs­day night.

Among the 24, Cara­pichaima East Sec­ondary School sus­tained se­vere dam­age, as part of the roof cov­er­ing class­rooms was blown off.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly said yes­ter­day she got a list of the schools “with some mea­sure of dam­age.”

She said the min­istry will work with the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed to ad­dress the dam­age.

She, how­ev­er, added that schools will open vir­tu­al­ly on Sep­tem­ber 6 as planned, “so the im­pact would not be as great as it could have been were phys­i­cal schools open­ing at this time.”