The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion is hop­ing to have the Point Fortin East Sec­ondary School re-opened soon.

The min­istry al­so ex­pects that in­fra­struc­tur­al re­pairs on the Cou­va West Sec­ondary, Diego Mar­tin North Sec­ondary and the South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary schools would soon be com­plet­ed as well. This is ac­cord­ing to per­ma­nent sec­re­tary Kurt Mey­er dur­ing a press con­fer­ence at the min­istry’s head of­fice on St Vin­cent Street Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

Mey­er in­di­cat­ed that a team from the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and Min­istry of Works were at the school yes­ter­day and have been work­ing on the build­ing.

“We are re­view­ing an OSH pro­hi­bi­tion no­tice on one of the blocks...the school could prob­a­bly be opened to­day (yes­ter­day) once that pro­hi­bi­tion is lift­ed but we have to wait on the Min­istry of Works en­gi­neer­ing team to give us the all-clear,” Mey­er said.

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion An­tho­ny Gar­cia said these of­fi­cials were “do­ing a sub­stan­tial in­spec­tion to make sure that school can re­sume.”

He in­di­cat­ed that over $737,000 has been spent on the school since to Ju­ly/Au­gust va­ca­tion on var­i­ous re­pairs.

Min­is­ter Gar­cia in­di­cat­ed the school’s PTA de­clined to meet with him at his Port-of-Spain of­fice de­spite their calls for a meet­ing. He said they want­ed him to meet with them at the school. How­ev­er, he in­di­cat­ed min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion Lovell Fran­cis, vis­it­ed the school yes­ter­day and met with the PTA.

Gar­cia al­so ruled out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a new school be­ing built soon “sim­ply be­cause we don’t have the re­quired fund­ing.”

Mey­er an­tic­i­pates work on the Diego Mar­tin North Sec­ondary School and the Cou­va West Sec­ondary School should be com­plet­ed by the end of the week. The works at the South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School are on­go­ing, how­ev­er, Mey­er said it’s “over 75 per cent com­plete.”