Opposition: Inquiry will damage morale

Two senior Opposition MPS have warned Government that the ongoing Alexandra School Commission of Inquiry is playing out before the nation “like a soap opera” and will do nothing more than hold the parties involved up to ridicule and damage morale.
St Joseph parliamentarian Dale Marshall and St Michael North-East MP Mia Mottley said the exercise, which was simply a case airing the school’s dirty laundry in public, was unlikely to provide authorities with any more information than what was outlined in an inspection report in April last year.
Describing the decision to go the route of the Commission of Inquiry as “Freundel’s fumble and Freundel’s folly”, Marshall said it would affect the ability of the teachers to do their job and of principal Jeff Broomes “to continue in whatever position may be available to him after”.
“Some of the statements that are being made – and we haven’t reached the halfway point yet – are guaranteed to result in negative impressions being formed . . . That we should be in this position at all borders on being scandalous,” the deputy opposition leader said.
Both he and Mottley pointed out that an inspection report had already been prepared that clearly outlined the problems at the school. (DP)