Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw will not be tolerating shoddy work within her ministry and will be holding accountable anyone who does not pull their weight.
During a tour of St Joseph Primary School in Horse Hill yesterday, the minister pinpointed the Education Technical Management Unit, saying she was calling “a spade a spade” and would “do what I have to do”.
“We’ve had some challenges in repairing schools [for the domestic summer programme], primarily with our scope of work. I am not pleased and I must say that we’ve had some major challenges with the Unit and its building maintenance officers in relation to providing the scope of work to be able to allow contractors to know precisely what they are supposed to do. That is something, going forward, we are going to have to rectify as a matter of urgency.
“It cannot be that people have been visiting schools, problems are being identified and yet we repeatedly find ourselves in the situation where, as the schools reopen, we hear all these issues that the ministry, and the minister, for certain, was not aware of,” she said. (CA)
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