Clay­ton Clarke

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

A 29 acre piece of state land is now the pro­posed site for the soon to be re­lo­cat­ed Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary School.

The ear­marked lo­ca­tion is sit­u­at­ed be­hind the Scar­bor­ough Health Cen­tre in Ba­co­let.

Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), Far­ley Au­gus­tine, made the dis­clo­sure re­cent­ly say­ing the de­ci­sion was made af­ter meet­ing with the var­i­ous in­ter­est groups.

He said, “We lis­tened. We walked across the road be­hind the Scar­bor­ough Health Cen­tre where the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly al­ready owns a lit­tle over 29 acres of land. We have start­ed con­ver­sa­tions with the res­i­dents in the area and we thank the res­i­dents of that area who are a part of the con­ver­sa­tion.”

Au­gus­tine said the change in the site was made af­ter tour­ing the lo­ca­tion. “We al­so vis­it­ed the site and with the stake­hold­ers, who agreed that that is a bet­ter site,” he said.

Au­gus­tine, who was speak­ing at a THA Town Hall Meet­ing at the Fair­field Com­plex in Ba­co­let on June 13, said the THA Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil has al­ready giv­en the nod of ap­proval for the con­struc­tion.

“We have com­plet­ed the sur­vey works al­ready and the ex­ec­u­tive coun­cil passed and con­firmed that the site will now be Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary School.”

Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary School has long been iden­ti­fied to be re­lo­cat­ed giv­en the im­pact of costal ero­sion on the south­ern side of the school com­pound.

Lands in Ba­co­let be­long­ing to In­ez In­vest­ments were pre­vi­ous­ly al­lo­cat­ed by the past Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment THA ex­ec­u­tive.

How­ev­er, the school’s Alum­ni As­so­ci­a­tion and oth­er con­cerned en­ti­ties raised ob­jec­tions over the close prox­im­i­ty to the sea.

In­ez In­vest­ments is owned by the Warn­er Group of Com­pa­nies.