Sascha Wil­son

Calm re­turned to Moru­ga Sec­ondary School yes­ter­day af­ter two dread­ful days when stu­dents dis­played bizarre be­hav­iour, fu­elling spec­u­la­tion of de­mon­ic pos­ses­sion. "Moru­ga Sec­ondary school is safe. God is in con­trol and he is able to han­dle any sit­u­a­tion," said a par­ent who gave her name on­ly as Mrs Grainger.

Par­ents, some ac­com­pa­nied by their chil­dren, met with of­fi­cials of the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and the Par­ent Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (PTA) to chart the way for­ward, fol­low­ing the de­ba­cle. Emerg­ing from the meet­ing, of­fi­cials de­clined to speak to the me­dia. Some par­ents said they were cau­tioned not to dis­close what tran­spired. Oth­er par­ents said they had put the fate of their chil­dren in the hands of God and would be send­ing them to school as usu­al from Mon­day.

For the third con­sec­u­tive day, yes­ter­day, school was dis­missed ear­ly.

Par­ent Car­lene Williams said every­thing was back to nor­mal. "There was no strange ac­tiv­i­ty at the school," Williams said, in ref­er­ence to re­ports over the past two days that fe­male stu­dents faint­ed and com­plained of be­ing at­tacked by su­per­nat­ur­al forces. Williams said par­ents would not al­low that one in­ci­dent to set back their chil­dren's pur­suit of aca­d­e­m­ic ex­cel­lence.

"God is in con­trol and he would take over. This is our school and we would take it back," she as­sert­ed. As par­ents and of­fi­cials left the meet­ing, a Rasta­far­i­an man, iden­ti­fied as Win­ter Coop­er, armed with a cut­lass and stick, ap­peared with a herbal con­coc­tion which he threw on the road in front of the school. An of­fi­cial of the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion con­firmed school will re­sume on Mon­day.