Fearful

Seven years after the Louis Lynch Secondary School was closed, the ghost of the environmental problems which haunted that school for several years of its life has not gone away.
There is serious concern among many who taught or studied at the Whitepark Road, St Michael school, as a result of what appears to be an unusually high incidence of cancer deaths among former teachers and students.
Since 2002, more than 20 former students have died from various cancers such as leukaemia and stomach, cervical and brain cancer, with five succumbing to the dreaded disease over the past year. In addition, two former teachers are said to have died from cancer.
At least nine former teachers have either been diagnosed with cancer or are suffering from acute respiratory illnesses while several former students are said to be battling various diseases ranging from cancer, kidney and liver problems as well as neurological and respiratory illnesses.
The situation has become so worrisome that the still active Old Scholars Association has called for the entire environmental study which was conducted at the school to be made public. It has also suggested that further tests be carried out to determine if there is a correlation between these debilitating illnesses and the environmental issues that dogged Louis Lynch Secondary.