Fresh look for schools

Close to 20 schools were refurbished during the annual summer programme in time for the start of the Michaelmas term.
Minister of Education Ronald Jones said work was done at 18 schools at a cost of just over $1 million. Another $2.8 million was spent on Parkinson Memorial Secondary School.
The Maria Holder Trust and the Caribbean Development Bank assisted with some of the work.
Jones and a team from the Ministry of Education toured a number of those schools yesterday. He spoke highly of Luther Thorne Memorial, where the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) undertook repairs to bathrooms on the “B” and “C” blocks at a cost of $60 000.