AIRY HILL, ST JOSEPH RESIDENTS are calling for the appointment of a permanent maintenance worker at St Bernard’s Primary School.
They made the plea yesterday as scores of them took up the task of ridding the rural school of overgrown bush and weeds, which they said harboured rodents and made the school an eyesore.
Lead spokesman for the group, Prince Nowell, said residents sprang into action after seeing the state of the school and its surroundings.
Many of the volunteers were men, women and “boys on the block” who either attended the primary school or have children there. They made their way from nearby communities such as Lammings and Sugar Hill to get the work done from as early 7 a.m. (TG)
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