JANELLE BERNARD

Pro­duc­er

——with re­port­ing by SHAS­TRI BOODAN

Af­ter 10 years of us­ing a com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre, the par­ents of the Preysal Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School are de­mand­ing, once again, that con­struc­tion of their new school be com­plet­ed.

On Tues­day, the PTA and Ca­roni com­mu­ni­ty builders held a joint news con­fer­ence to high­light the frus­tra­tion of par­ents and stu­dents.

Jas­mine Ali, pres­i­dent of the PTA, says the par­ents are fed up with demon­strat­ing and keep­ing their chil­dren at home.

Ali says con­struc­tion of the new school start­ed in 2014 but the project was aban­doned. She points out that for the last decade, the stu­dents have been housed at the Preysal Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­ter where they have had to face prob­lems with wa­ter, sew­er­age over­flows, and mal­func­tion­ing air con­di­tion­ing units.

The PTA says the old school once housed 500 stu­dents. How­ev­er, the school's pop­u­la­tion has since dwin­dled to 250.