For the sec­ond time this year, par­ents of stu­dents in the In­fants De­part­ment who at­tend the St Do­minic's RC School in Pe­nal, protest­ed the de­plorable con­di­tions of the church, where their chil­dren are ex­pect­ed to learn.

The build­ing was con­demned af­ter it was dam­aged in an earth­quake in 2017.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands stu­dents in Stan­dards One to Five have been ac­com­mo­dat­ed at the Pe­nal Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, while the In­fants De­part­ment was re­lo­cat­ed to the parish hall of the St Do­minic’s RC Church.

Years lat­er, the par­ents of stu­dents in the In­fants De­part­ment are call­ing for a new school.

They say they can­not con­tin­ue to send their chil­dren in­to un­safe con­di­tions.

“There is no se­cu­ri­ty on this com­pound,” one of the protest­ing par­ents told Guardian Me­dia. “Our in­fant chil­dren are here with­out se­cu­ri­ty.”

“There is no air-con­di­tion­ing. The air-con­di­tion­ing has been cut off un­til fur­ther no­tice,” the par­ent re­vealed. “There is a bill that has to be paid and the school is re­quired to pay 80 per­cent of that bill.”

Back in Jan­u­ary, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly said a re­quest for roof as­sess­ment was sent to MTS and once the re­port is re­ceived, the rec­om­men­da­tions for re­pair will be im­ple­ment­ed.

Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed the ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter about plans to re­build the school.

Min­is­ter Gads­by-Dol­ly said the mat­ter will have to be dis­cussed with the Catholic Ed­u­ca­tion Board of Man­age­ment (CEBM).