The Ministry of Education has promised that it will act to ensure the Wesley Hall schools do not become another Louis Lynch Secondary School.
Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry, Harry Husbands, issued the warning after memories of that controversial saga were triggered as hundreds of students had to take refuge on the Passage Road Playing Field in St Michael when smoke coming from the chimney of a nearby business caused respiratory issues for staff and students of the Junior and Infants school yesterday morning.
The majority of the junior school’s 522 students and 39 staff, and the infant school’s 351 students and 28 employees were forced to make the trek.
It was the third such incident for the term at the King Street schools.
“The ministry is deadly serious about protecting the interest of the staff and the students at both of these schools and we intend to do all in our power to safeguard their interest,” he said while standing on the compound of the junior school, which opened in 1884. (AD)
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