Health and environmental concerns affecting several primary schools – St Bartholomew Primary, Charles F. Broome Primary, St Paul’s Primary and Gordon Greenidge Primary – have triggered a coordinated response from education and health officials, with remedial work set to be carried out during the Easter break.
The issues range from rodent sightings and sanitation concerns to overgrown grass and cow itch infestations, raising alarm among parents and teachers and prompting calls for safer school environments ahead of the new term.
At the centre of the latest developments is St Bartholomew Primary, where classes were disrupted last week after a mouse and droppings were discovered in one of the prefabricated classrooms.
The school was subsequently closed to facilitate industrial cleaning over the weekend.
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