Carisa Lee

The Dins­ley-Trinci­ty Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School re­mains closed for an­oth­er day af­ter ro­dents were spot­ted on the com­pound.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, the Min­istry re­lies on as­sis­tance from the Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tions to bait the plant so that the sit­u­a­tion can be re­solved.

This she said was al­ready done at the school.

Chair­man of the Tu­na­puna / Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Kwasi Robin­son told Guardian Me­dia that they start­ed get­ting re­ports of ro­dents at the school be­fore the end of last term.

“Up­on school re­open­ing, the first day of school we have got­ten re­ports of an­oth­er rat sight­ing, an­oth­er ro­dent sight­ing. At that time we took pre­cau­tions to clean the sur­round­ings,” Robin­son said.

He said last Thurs­day the Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion in­stalled nine new bait­ing sta­tions and af­ter meet­ing with rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers, a de­ci­sion was made to put 15 more sta­tions.

“My of­fi­cers would have been there yes­ter­day and to­day and I’ll have them go back this evening to see if they see any ev­i­dence of rat drop­pings or any­thing like that,” he said.

Robin­son the Min­istry is set to ad­dress its clean­ing sched­ule while his Cor­po­ra­tion is ad­just­ing the garbage col­lec­tion sched­ule.

“Cur­rent­ly we pick up on a Mon­day, Wednes­day, and Fri­day which is most like­ly the morn­ing pe­ri­od, but Fri­day evening if there is garbage there it re­mains un­til Mon­day,” he ex­plained.

The Chair­man said they are do­ing all that they can to en­sure that the school is ro­dent-free. The school has been closed since last week.