Stu­dents of St George’s Col­lege be­gan class­es at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (UTT) Val­sayn Cam­pus on Mon­day, where they have been tem­porar­i­ly re­lo­cat­ed, fol­low­ing the col­lapse of the ceil­ing at the school build­ing in Barataria.

Par­ents were how­ev­er no­ti­fied of the un­avail­abil­i­ty of a shut­tle ser­vice on­ly hours be­fore on Sun­day but were giv­en the as­sur­ance that shut­tle ser­vices will be made avail­able from to­day (Tues­day).

The par­ents were no­ti­fied via email on Sun­day by school prin­ci­pal Asha Ram­raj-Sookdeo.

The email read: "I have just been ad­vised by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion that all stu­dents of St George’s Col­lege are re­quired to at­tend school at the UTT Val­sayn Cam­pus to­mor­row Mon­day 31st Oc­to­ber, 2022. How­ev­er please note that the shut­tle ser­vices will on­ly be avail­able from Tues­day No­vem­ber 1st 2022.

While we are dif­fer­ing from the ini­tial plan that I had dis­cussed with you in our meet­ing last Fri­day 28th Oc­to­ber 2022, we must com­ply with the min­istry's di­rec­tive."

It is ex­pect­ed that ex­ten­sive re­pairs will be­gin at the school’s build­ing in Barataria soon.

Phys­i­cal class­es at St George’s were sus­pend­ed ear­ly last month af­ter the school’s ceil­ing col­lapsed as a re­sult of heavy rain.

No one was in­jured dur­ing the in­ci­dent but as a pre­cau­tion class­es were con­duct­ed on­line.

Fol­low­ing this, the Chief Ed­u­ca­tion Of­fi­cer in­formed prin­ci­pal Ram­raj-Sookdeo that plans have been put in place to have the school re­lo­cat­ed to the UTT cam­pus.

Ef­forts to reach both the prin­ci­pal and Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly for com­ment proved fu­tile up to press time yes­ter­day.